Can you manage your house with a local, no-cloud voice assistant? Mostly, yes.
Can you manage your house with a local, no-cloud voice assistant? Mostly, yes.
arstechnica.com Can you manage your house with a local, no-cloud voice assistant? Mostly, yes.
If you're tired of Alexa and Google listening, a DIY option is possible.
“As it stands today, we’re not ready yet to tell people that our voice assistant is a replacement for Google/Amazon,” Schoutsen wrote. “We don’t have to be as good as their systems, but there is a certain bar of usable that we haven’t reached yet.”
Key among the improvements that need to happen, according to Schoutsen:
- Audio input needs to be cleaned up (speaker voice separated) before it is processed
- Error messages need to be more clear about what’s going wrong, and input has to have more flexibility
- Non-English languages need a lot of commands and variables
- Compatible hardware that features far-listening microphones has to be more widely available
- Most people will want local processing to be faster
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That is amazing and very interesting,
I think all the stuff with home automation is kinda unnecessary, but sometimes I find it cool and interesting, mostly when it is something local.
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