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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: 0.201s | 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. joshstrange ◴[20 Dec 24 05:38 UTC] No.42468570[source]▶
You can use your phone to text or talk to HA's assistant. I've done that a number of times when Alexa fails. Having dedicated hardware is a huge step up for me. I've tried their ESP32 mini cube assistant thing before and it showed a lot of promise but the hardware (speaker and mic, processor was fine) was lacking. This seems to be a good mic and speaker wrapped around a similar core so I'm super excited for it.