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The blogpost linked in this submission says the following: > Mimic 3: Mycroft’s newer, better, privacy-focused neural text-to-speech (TTS) engine. In human ter
by capableweb 4y ago
The blogpost linked in this submission says the following:
> Mimic 3: Mycroft’s newer, better, privacy-focused neural text-to-speech (TTS) engine. In human terms, that means it can run completely offline and sounds great. To top it all off, it’s open source.
If "skills" are what I think they are (something like external commands, for example "Play X on Spotify"), then my understanding would be that everything but those runs offline and local-only.
But if things like `speech to text` requires internet connection and sends the data to some cloud service, then the entire value proposition of this product falls apart.
I hope that's really not the case, as that would be outright lying and false advertisement.
- krisgesling 4y agoOn device STT will be available before the Mark II ships in September! There are some options for that available if you're running Mycroft already: https://mycroft-ai.gitbook.io/docs/using-mycroft-ai/customizations/stt-engine https://mycroft-ai.gitbook.io/docs/using-mycroft-ai/customiz... But these are not what will be shipped on the Mark II...
- bluGill 4y agoThe raspberry pi 3 that is used in older products doesn't have enough power to be all offline. Maybe you could setup a server at home (but they won't help you!), but you cannot do it on the hardware they have. The next gen mycroft 2 (should ship this fall - first announced many years ago) will have a pi 4 which might have enough power to run offline, this isn't clear yet.
- capableweb 4y ago> might have enough power to run offline, this isn't clear yet It's very unclear and misleading to put "it can run completely offline" if you're not 100% sure it can actually run "completely offline", hardware be damned.