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The "by the way" thing is awful. I would legit pay a $50 premium for a voice assistant that only tried to do the few things that voice assistants are good at a

• rolenthedeep 4y ago
  Have you looked into Mycroft? It's an open source voice assistant, which runs on hardware you physically own and keep in your house.
  • walterbell 4y ago
    $350 for an equivalent to Echo! https://mycroft.ai/product/mark-ii/ https://mycroft.ai/product/mark-ii/ If Amazon is going to kill Alexa, they should be forced to unlock their (Linux?) firmware to avoid millions of devices going into landfills. The open-source community will come up with a replacement that can use their stellar hardware.
    • shagie 4y ago
      > $350 for an equivalent to Echo! You missed the "Pricing Available Until November 30th, 2022" and the corresponding grayed and struck price of $499.00
      • walterbell 4y ago
        Yikes, that's the price of a used Linux laptop with echo cancellation hardware.
        • shagie 4y ago
          The really off thing for me with the idea of it is I've got multiple devices. I've got an Alexa device in six different rooms that I got back in (looking up order) 2016(!!) for $260. Looking at about $40 per device that's been running for over half a decade each. For me, the price to replace these all would be be a few thousand dollars. For me, if Amazon was to discontinue Alexa (not a prediction), putting home pods in the rooms that lack them (yes, I have Alexa and Siri sitting next to each other) would be less than the cost of a single Mycroft.