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I have a question. Why has it taken this long for a replacement for Alexa to show up? All we need is something hooked up to, say, ChatGPT that lets me control m
by pmarreck 3y ago
I have a question. Why has it taken this long for a replacement for Alexa to show up? All we need is something hooked up to, say, ChatGPT that lets me control my house stuff, set timers, add to a shopping list etc... And it can generate JSON for all that which can then get picked up and relayed over the wire.
- outop 3y agoChatGPT would be terrible at adding stuff to a shopping list.
- imp0cat 3y agoAlexa is perfectly fine for that even without ChatGPT-like capabilities. The Skills situation might be a disaster, but if you just want to control devices in your home, it's great. The level of integration with pretty much anything is amazing.
- pmarreck 3y agoI would really like it to be far more intelligent. For example, if I give it a request like “decorate all the lights in my house with Christmas colors“, it should know what to do.
- 3np 3y agoYou can semi-DIY it already with Rhasspy + your choice of home automation stack (HomeAssistant or what-have-you). Rhasspy is probably what you're looking for. https://github.com/rhasspy/rhasspy https://github.com/rhasspy/rhasspy Was discussed last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33705938 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33705938 My only real issue in setting it up and running it has been finding appropriate microphones.
- knallfrosch 3y agoYou throw audio into an LLM and get a function call back. Okay. An API call to OpenAI whisper costs around 0.01ct per minute, so really cheap. Feeding the text-from-speech and the possible function calls with their JSON schema into the LLM costs another penny. Everything works. But now, where's your business model?
- kstrauser 3y agoOther than Siri and Google Home?