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S.e.p.i.a. – Digital voice assistant
- Animats 5y agoWhere can I talk to it?
- addet0x 5y agoWould be cool to have somewhere to try it out indeed. :-)
- Animats 5y agoIt's amusing that few people selling chatbots offer one you can just talk to about buying their product. Most of those things are about one step above "press 1 for sales, press 2 for tech support". You just get to say "sales" instead of pressing 1. So if you want to convince people yours is better, a good demo is essential.
- sigmonsays 5y agoI'd like to understand how to simply test it out.. any idea?
- scubbo 5y agoThere's a "Get Started" page linked from the top-right: https://github.com/SEPIA-Framework/sepia-docs#welcome-to-the-documentation-page-for-sepia https://github.com/SEPIA-Framework/sepia-docs#welcome-to-the...
- nomel 5y agoThis webpage is confusing. There's no scroll bar, and the "Get started" link is hidden until you scroll down about 75%, then in sticks to the top, unless you scroll back up. So, scroll down a ways, then click "getting started" at the top right of the page, then there's a "quick start" guide. It's self hosted, so you probably won't find an online demo. If you don't want to try it without an online demo, then this probably won't be that interesting for you anyways, since custom voice assistants necessarily require customization.
- chrismorgan 5y ago> There’s no scroll bar I’m interested in what platform you’re using, because I wasn’t aware that any made a visual distinction of the error they’ve made. Specifically, they have the root element hiding overflow (well, it’s #site-window that does the actual `overflow: hidden`, but it and its ancestors control their height to 100% of the viewport), and an element inside that (#site-main-views) being the scrolling element. I noticed this because keyboard navigation (Up/Down/PageUp/PageDown/Home/End) failed to work, since the initial containing block doesn’t have any scrolling, and you have to focus the scrolling element (e.g. with Tab or clicking in it) before keyboard navigation will work.
- nomel 5y agoMy mistake. Looking again, there's a very skinny (8 pixels wide) custom scrollbar that has no discernable "track" (#0D on #00 background). I just didn't notice it. I'm using Safari.
- chrismorgan 5y agoHmm, interesting that they’re styling a viewport and inner-but-equivalently-sized scrollbar differently. Think I might see a Mac in a few weeks’ time, I’ll have to look into the rendering and differences.
- lallysingh 5y agoHow well does it understand voice, compared to Google or Siri?
- gigel82 5y agoCurious how it compares with Mycroft (https://mycroft.ai/); https://mycroft.ai/); I've tried it last year wanting to get rid of Alexa in my home but the voice recognition was terrible (even with a specialized 4-mic array and running it on a PC instead of a Raspberry Pi). I'm still looking for a privacy / offline voice assistant solution, so I'll dig a bit on this.
- ramraj07 5y agoHave you tried matrix voice https://www.matrix.one/products/voice https://www.matrix.one/products/voice
- kalupa 5y agoLooks like that https cert needs to be renewed.
- aaaaaaaaata 5y agoArathorn
- Handytinge 5y agoWrong matrix!
- tekchip 5y agoMycroft got a recent update (maybe 3 months ago) and seems to work much better than before. I've got a Google AIY Voice Kit v1 running on a Pi 3 B+ and it works quite well to about 6ft away. False wake's prior to this latest update was 4 or 5 times a night watching Netflix. Now down to once a night or not at all on a good night. Slow-going but they're progressing.
- TedDoesntTalk 5y agoWhat do people use digital voice assistants for besides to turn on/off music or other media? Genuinely curious.
- nextaccountic 5y agoNever used it, but I think that interacting with a computer while washing dishes would be cool
- tekchip 5y agoTurning lights on and off. "turn on basement" as I move towards the basement door. "Turn off basement" as I come up the stairs with my hands full of stuff preventing me from reaching the light switch.
- pmontra 5y agoI should replace every single switch with a smart one to do that. Which kind of switches do you have? If they are Wi-Fi how do you avoid hitting the max number of devices your home router is able to handle?
- KnobbleMcKnees 5y agoZigBee is the contemporary standard du jour for this stuff. Wifi is fine for some things but doesn't offer the same benefits (e.g. implicit mesh network of devices)
- Semaphor 5y agoEither the switches, or, usually easier, the bulbs. As sibling said, Zigbee, but there is also Z-Wave (z-Wave is bigger in the USA, stricter. Zigbee, bigger in Europe, is more open, but you can get devices that suck in some way if you do no research). There is some new thing that’s related, Thread/Matter something, but I didn’t look into that yet.
- sigio 5y agoThere is no 'max limit' of devices your router can handle... especially if they are idle 99.9% of the time.
- xrd 5y agoSeems strange that this requires java. Feels like they could get better performance from a compiled language and it would run on lower profile computers. But, still, an exciting project. I would love to rid my house of Google Home devices which are training my kids to think Google is god.
- mulmen 5y agoThen… rid your home of them? You bought these and put them in your home. You are equally empowered to remove them.
- xrd 5y agoIt's a tradeoff between agonizing over the bickering of my kids or agonizing over the music they play which stops the bickering. Google Home makes the latter choice simpler than handing them my phone. I'm aware I'm fully responsible for my own choices and I can still feel regret for where I'm at given those choices.
- hunter2_ 5y agoCould have a cheap/old tablet/phone that lives on the coffee table or whatever for them to select music, with app pinning perhaps, not even locked if nothing important is logged in, instead of handing them yours.
- MisterTea 5y ago> It's a tradeoff between agonizing over the bickering of my kids or agonizing over the music they play which stops the bickering. My parents would simply scream with a loud bang from a foot stomp or fist slam "Enough!" OR "shut up, the both of you!" which worked very well. Did not require purchasing anything, accounts or internet connection.
- Handytinge 5y agoRegret is fine for unmodifable decisions in the past. It's odd to regret something in the future you control.
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- scim-knox-twox 5y agoI could never understand “assistants” like this. I dream about “assistant” like Focus in “Horizon” – so in a more passive way. For me, the best “assistant” is the one I don't pay attention to.
- IgorPartola 5y ago“Alexa, set lights to 40%” “Alexa, set an egg timer for 12 minutes” “Alexa, set an alarm for 6:45am” “Alexa, play Stories Podcast on Spotify” These or variations of these are the most used commands at my house. Passive assistants can’t really figure out that I or my kids want to play a specific podcast or when to set a timer when cooking. Lighting is another tricky one. Sometimes I’m reading and want bright lights. Sometimes I want scenic lights. Sometimes I want very low lights while falling asleep. I suspect most people don’t use their smart assistants for shopping. I do occasionally ask it a random question like “what year was Einstein born” when I don’t feel like whipping out my phone or play an occasional round of 20 questions with my kids. But that’s rare compared to the typical usage.
- WalterBright 5y agoI have an egg timer I just turn the dial on. Replacing it with a billion transistors scratches a non-existent itch for me. What I want is an assistant that will handle all my bookkeeping for me. Right now, I have to log in to the account, then download all the statements for the last tax year. Evidently, no bank has such an option. Nope. You gotta do it month by month, click, download, save, back, back, click, download, save, back, back, until you scream. Then ya gotta download the transactions for the last year in a format that quicken can use. You can download transactions for last week, last month, last 12 months. No option for "last tax year". So you have to manually enter 1/1/2021, then 12/31/2021, then confirm, then download, then save, then do it all over again for the CVS version. Then you gotta poke around looking for the tax documents. Then I gotta get the transactions for a credit card I canceled 6 months ago. But since I canceled it, I can't download the transactions. It must be only me that has these problems. Why is that? Does nobody else need to pay taxes? No, I doan need no help setting a $%^&# egg timer :-) Maybe if I become bedridden I'll need help flipping a light switch. Until then, nope.
- th3h4mm3r 5y agoMy attention decay when I read that is in Java.
- splitrocket 5y agoThe key component that is missing from many of these digital voice assistants is multi-listening device coordination: which device should answer if there are many devices listening. It's a hard problem. From my understanding, homepods use bluetooth to coordinate who is going to answer. Google Home, at least in my home, is terrible at this problem. Often devices in another room will answer. Once someone has solved this problem, I'm on board!
- bedast 5y agoEven homepods get this wrong, and I'd be surprised if they only used bluetooth. I know they use wifi for presence (being on the same wifi is required for things like managing lists). Homepods also support UWB (you can bring your phone close to a homepod to transfer music playback to it, and it's used for setup). But I still get my living room homepod responding to me while I'm in the kitchen mere feet from the kitchen homepod with my phone in my hand (working on grocery list, for example). Depending on the phone's proximity is still annoying, though. It seems weird that they don't seem to use voice proximity to determine which one is closer.