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 could be a software implementation that works perfectly fine on desktop PCs, especially Linux, but problem is hardware. I don’t see commercial smartphone manufactures giving access to ‘unauthorized uses’ like foss projects usually go around.
considering android allows you to actively change the default assistant it won’t be a problem, we already have plenty of apps that use overlays that are foss so that’s not an issue either, so I really have no idea what you think would be locked down here.
dicio is just kind of a clunky app
Mycroft is defunct
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/
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