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I had a roommate who I told, if he ever got an Amazon assistant, I'd smash it with a hammer. I don't get it either. There are open source alternatives if you wa
by djsumdog 6y ago
I had a roommate who I told, if he ever got an Amazon assistant, I'd smash it with a hammer. I don't get it either. There are open source alternatives if you want to setup your own assistant that doesn't transmit all your data back to Google/Amazon/Apple.
The one caveat, I do know someone who is blind who uses the speech-to-text on her Google device a lot. She has all the fonts set to their maximum size, high contrast colors, and various other accessibility features enabled. Speach to text helps her greatly.
- cbm-vic-20 6y ago> There are open source alternatives if you want to setup your own assistant that doesn't transmit all your data back to Google/Amazon/Apple. Really? The Mycroft project claims to be just that, and it shows promise, but it still seems really clunky. And right now, as far as I can tell, you need to set up an account on their service so it can do things like voice recognition, which is a pretty critical component to this type of thing.
- djsumdog 6y agoI haven't tried them yet, but there's also Rhasspy (https://rhasspy.readthedocs.io https://rhasspy.readthedocs.io) and voice2json (https://voice2json.org https://voice2json.org)
- jeanofthedead 6y agoIt really depends on what devices you use. For example, I have Homebridge set up on a Raspberry Pi to link my array of unsupported 'smart' devices to Apple's Homekit. I tried using Home Assistant (Hassio), but found the lack of support for several brands a dealbreaker. I wish the dev communities communicated more, between the two.