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My first tought was in this direction: Amazon’s Echo hardware can be hacked to run your own local voice assistant that never touches the cloud. This involves re

by ddmma 2y ago

My first tought was in this direction: Amazon’s Echo hardware can be hacked to run your own local voice assistant that never touches the cloud. This involves replacing or modifying the Echo’s firmware to break free of Amazon’s servers, then installing offline voice recognition and AI tools on your local network.

Mountain_Skies 2y ago
Do you have a link? Last time I looked a couple of years ago, Amazon's hardware was too locked down to be used for anything other than Amazon's services.
- ddmma 2y ago
  ... becoming quite interesting topic the more you dig in https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Amazon_Echo_Dot_2nd_gen_(amazon-biscuit) https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Amazon_Echo_Dot_2nd_gen_(...
tummler 2y ago
Do you have any details on this? With a quick search I could only find some older attempts at rooting but no custom firmware.
- ddmma 2y ago
  Here is GPT "deep research" on this topic on Repurposing Amazon Echo for a Local AI Assistant https://airadiohost.com/alexa.html https://airadiohost.com/alexa.html