> 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 Mycr

> 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.