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The era of open voice assistants

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lxe ◴[] No.42468351[source]
Here's what I'm looking for in a voice assistant:

- Full privacy: nothing goes to the "cloud"

- Non-shitty microphones and processing: i want to be able to be heard without having to yell, repeat, or correct

- No wake words: it should listen to everything, process it, and understand when it's being addressed. Since everything is private and local, this is now doable

- Conversational: it should understand when I finished talking, have ability to be interrupted, all with low latency

- Non-stupid: it's 2024, and alexa and siri and google are somehow absolutely abysmal at doing even the basics

- Complete: i don't want to use an app to get stuff configured. I want everything to be controlled via voice

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1. wild_egg ◴[] No.42468471[source]
How much are you willing to pay though? Full privacy means powerful enough hardware to do everything else on the list on-device and _quickly_. I don't know that most people have the budget for that