[HN Gopher] Show HN: Dexter, a Voice Controlled Assistant
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Show HN: Dexter, a Voice Controlled Assistant
Author : iamsrp
Score : 37 points
Date : 2021-01-10 19:12 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| grawprog wrote:
| I have to admit, voice assistants don't interest me much, but
| this looks like a pretty cool start to something that seems to be
| needed and lacking in the realm of voice assistants.
|
| I'd like to see this gain traction and grow. Just because of the
| amount of people that seem to use and like voice assistants it's
| great to see some work on the open source, non-proprietary cloud
| side of things.
|
| I also have to admit, I find most of thr current voice assistant
| technology vaguely creepy knowing every command is possibly
| stored and saved somewhere outside my control. The fact the
| systems that do this are constantly listening for phrases and of
| course the inevitable use of your data for marketing that these
| services are based on.
|
| I understand the choices seem to be either pay for it or pay with
| your privacy and data, but I still hold out the naive hope for a
| technology based future focused on empowering individuals and not
| service providers and large corporations, sadly it seems this
| mostly comes from the open source world, which as many articles
| on hn have touched on, don't tend to get the support they need or
| they get picked up by large entities who take what they need and
| surround them by proprietary blobs.
|
| Sorry this got a bit rambling, but anyway, this is a cool
| project, I hope to see it grow and gain support and adoption.
| livre wrote:
| >I understand the choices seem to be either pay for it or pay
| with your privacy and data
|
| Where have you seen those choices? What I've seen is either pay
| with your privacy and data (Cortana for example) or pay for it
| and at the same time surrender your privacy and data (Alexa,
| Google Nest).
| nwienert wrote:
| Siri is more of a pay for it and keep the privacy/data.
| grawprog wrote:
| Sorry I guess I should have meant theoretical choices...at
| this point there isn't much of a choice.
| niels2 wrote:
| Hey, you should check out Mycroft AI.
| bussierem wrote:
| In response to a few things in your comment:
|
| I was actually in the same opinion as you about remote storage
| and always on wake detection, and I actually found out that
| it's possible to make one without all of this!
|
| There are "offline wake work detector libraries" like
| Snowboy.ai that prevent one of those things, and you can also
| get self hosted versions of even popular language parsers like
| the Azure Speech Recognition that you can run in a docker image
| and have everything stored locally (or not at all!)
|
| Not suggesting you have to go make your own. It just makes me
| hopeful for the future where we can build useful assistants
| that don't need all this privacy l-destroying crap in them :)
| oceliker wrote:
| I wish somebody made a text-based assistant that has similar
| functionality. As a non-native English speaker I don't think
| voice assistants will ever become accurate enough to be usable by
| me.
| alexdeloy wrote:
| I didn't try it out yet but Kalliope is a similar project (RPi
| voice assistant) but has an API where you could input a text
| order via HTTP:
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| https://kalliope-project.github.io/kalliope/api/synapses/#ru...
| suyash wrote:
| Nice one but how is it different than so many other Raspberry Pi
| based voice assistants?
| HeWhoLurksLate wrote:
| This is awesome! I've been looking for something like this for a
| while- I'll have to try it when my Pi arrives.
| Buckaroo9 wrote:
| How is this different from previous voice assistant projects
| designed for the raspberry pi. Projects such as: Rhaspy, Mycroft,
| and Jasper?
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