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Why would you take this over Mycroft? Is there a difference?
by Vaslo 4y ago
Why would you take this over Mycroft? Is there a difference?
- diroussel 4y agoDo you have a problem with that, Dave.
- GekkePrutser 4y agoI don't know how well Leon works but Mycroft is not running locally on your own server. It's still a cloud service. I believe it can be run locally but it's very complex and not well supported. At least this was the state last time I looked at it. For this reason (and their failed Kickstarter) I've never really been into Mycroft. After all it's kinda the same as Alexa/Siri just a slightly more trustworthy party when they say they're not using your data. I'm just not interested in alternatives until they can run fully locally (not necessarily on device, on a local server or docker is fine) If this Leon does what it says on the tin it might be just the thing for me.
- vorpalhex 4y agoMycroft does run on your own server. It allows you to use the Google text to speech API for more natural voices, which is a cloud product. It is a yaml config to use on device tts instead. Install is flashing an sd card.
- GekkePrutser 4y agoI thought the detection engine was too complex and not fully open? I remember them looking at Mozilla DeepSpeech or something but that being one of those never ending projects. I was asking about self hosting on their forum and they were like "just use our hosted service, you can trust us". That's not different enough from Apple/Amazon/Google/Microsoft so I dropped it. But like I said this was a few years ago. Never looked again since.
- Louistiti 4y agoLeon can fully run on your own device, it includes the NLP, STT, TTS and so on. More offline STT/TTS solutions are coming up though.