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The era of open voice assistants

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879 points _Microft | 6 comments | 20 Dec 24 00:29 UTC | HN request time: 0.85s | source | bottom
1. catmanjan ◴[20 Dec 24 04:36 UTC] No.42468323[source]▶
All I want is a voice assistant that I can call "computer" like Star Trek, I don't want to have to say a brand name thankyou!
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2. dartos ◴[20 Dec 24 04:38 UTC] No.42468328[source]▶
You could’ve always set Alexa to respond to “Computer” instead.
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3. catmanjan ◴[20 Dec 24 04:42 UTC] No.42468349[source]▶
Ah I admit I haven't looked into it for several years, good to see they added the feature - I might have to grab one
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4. antonyt ◴[20 Dec 24 04:57 UTC] No.42468404[source]▶
If you run openWakeWord, “computer” is one of very many pretrained models the community has made: https://github.com/fwartner/home-assistant-wakewords-collect...
5. bigstrat2003 ◴[20 Dec 24 07:51 UTC] No.42469115{3}[source]▶
The problem is that it will go off every single time you watch Star Trek.
6. imp0cat ◴[20 Dec 24 20:52 UTC] No.42474904[source]▶
Can confirm, this works fabulously!