I'm uncomfortable with having to create an account and be connected to a cloud service in order to have a working home voice assistant. To be fair, Mycroft does

I'm uncomfortable with having to create an account and be connected to a cloud service in order to have a working home voice assistant. To be fair, Mycroft does say that if you're willing to do some work, you can get local processing of speech recognition, but they don't seem they're very encouraging about that option. I made my own home voice assistant [0] that's pretty primitive, but runs entirely locally on a Raspberry Pi (except when, e.g., I ask it to tell me the weather forecast, and it goes to a weather website to fetch it). I'd like to see more development that's truly privacy-focussed along those lines. [0] https://7402.org/blog/2021/diy-home-voice-assistant-privacy-aqi-display.html https://7402.org/blog/2021/diy-home-voice-assistant-privacy-...