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?

  • rar@discuss.online
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    9 months ago

    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.

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      9 months ago

      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

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    9 months ago

    I don’t know if it fits all the prereqs of a FOSS, but there’s mycroft and there’s also jasper

    But I have no idea how advanced they are, or how good their 3rd party integrations are.

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    9 months ago

    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/

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      9 months ago

      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