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Isn't it significantly faster and more accurate to just turn a knob or move a slider to the middle? 500ms and no conversational interruption vs. 5-10 seconds w
by nitrogen 6y ago
Isn't it significantly faster and more accurate to just turn a knob or move a slider to the middle? 500ms and no conversational interruption vs. 5-10 seconds where everyone has to be quiet.
- toast0 6y agoIf you're near the knob, and you have a clean hand, and a free hand, and your motor control is fine, and your lights are wired to switches how you want to control them (some people want individually controlled bulbs, but that's a lot of switches and knobs). BTW, always on the lookout for an offline only voice activated clock with multiple timers. wifi for NTP only is also acceptable; no cloud allowed. 98% of what we use the voice assistants for is task timers; it's nice to have those voice activated so everyone knows they were set.
- pmx 6y agoThere seem to be some efforts to make Mycroft run without an internet connection here https://community.mycroft.ai/t/the-mycroft-personal-server-starting-the-conversation/4691 https://community.mycroft.ai/t/the-mycroft-personal-server-s...