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The era of open voice assistants

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878 points _Microft | 1 comments | 20 Dec 24 00:29 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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mkagenius ◴[20 Dec 24 04:12 UTC] No.42468221[source]▶
Though a separate hardware helps - I believe voice and automation can be integrated more seamlessly to our existing devices (phones/laptops) with high compute built in.

Llama and whisper are already public so that should help innovation in this area.

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1. antonyt ◴[20 Dec 24 04:30 UTC] No.42468293[source]▶
With existing phones and laptops, there’s either activation friction (pressing the “listen to me” button) or the device has to be always listening, which requires a lot of trust in your hardware vendors.

With an open source and potentially local-only device, you can have your voice assistant and keep your privacy.