Theres Dicio, which honestly does all that I need a voice assistant to do, but I have to open the app to use it, I cant just say “Hey Dicio” or whatever. Is something like that possible?
There’s Mycroft AI
That’s super cool, might set up a pi to run this
Mycroft actually sells devices (pretty similar to the Amazon Echo lineup) that are powered by Raspberry Pis. But making your own is much cheaper.
Mycroft is defunct
Probably for the best. They’d been spinning their wheels while sucking most of the oxygen out of the room for several years now. Time for somebody else to give it a go
Source?
https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/13/linux_ai_assistant_killed_off/
Wikipedia entry: “In early 2023, Mycroft AI ceased development.”
They probably mean this: https://mycroft.ai/blog/update-from-the-ceo-part-1/
There is no reason why it should not exist other than the fact that there really is no interest. Except for a few uses here and there (driving for example), voice assistants are just gimmicks.
I mean, that’s like your personal opinion and not some objective fact.
Not really. Even Amazon, Apple and Google have been investing in assistants less and less. They have had massive lay offs from voice assistant teams.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64371426
"But it’s not clear whether they are money-making opportunities. Reports say most interactions are relatively simple tasks like checking the weather, or playing music.
More broadly, according to one report, over the past three years voice assistant use has been falling and another report suggests that the adoption of smart speakers is slowing."
So no it’s not just “my opinion”. But sure just down vote and fuck off.
Home Assistant invested quite a bit into the technology to create a FOSS voice assistant over the past year. It still needs quite a bit of work, but the foundation is there; it supports wake words (“Hey …”), speech-to-text to hear your command, interpretation and command processing, and text-to-speech to return results.
The downsides are that it’s still quite technical to set up primarily due to the lack of commercially available hardware, and the command library is fairly small at this point.
With some of this foundational work out of the way, I expect Home Assistant to move forward quickly to improve, and other projects can work off the same pieces if they desire to as well.
Here’s their year-end post about it: https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/12/13/year-of-the-voice-chapter-5/
should have clarified, I’m not looking for a home assistant, I’m looking for a voice assistant on my phone. either way super exited to see where they take this
I don’t see how being home-assistant excludes it from working on your phone. The only difference is that your phone acts as the “satellite” rather than a stationary device.
I’m using https://rhasspy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ together with HomeAssistant which does what you describe. It combines a lot of different things into one nice UI, one of the things is listening to a wake word with help of one of those:
- Raven
- Porcupine
- Snowboy
- Mycroft Precise
- Pocketsphinx
- External Command
With some of them you can even train it to use your own wake word.
