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The era of open voice assistants

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879 points _Microft | 5 comments | 20 Dec 24 00:29 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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Jarwain ◴[20 Dec 24 04:02 UTC] No.42468180[source]▶
I'm actually really excited for this!

I noticed recently there weren't any good open source hardware projects for voice assistants with a focus on privacy. There's another project I've been thinking about where I think the privacy aspect is Important, and figuring out a good hardware stack has been a Process. The project I want to work on isn't exactly a voice assistant, but same ultimate hardware requirements

Something I'm kinda curious about: it sounds like they're planning on a sorta batch manufacturing by resellers type of model. Which I guess is pretty standard for hardware sales. But why not do a sorta "group buy" approach? I guess there's nothing stopping it from happening in conjunction

I've had an idea floating around for a site that enables group buys for open source hardware (or 3d printed items), that also acts like or integrates with github wrt forking/remixing

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Brendinooo ◴[20 Dec 24 05:01 UTC] No.42468413[source]▶
I invested in Mycroft and it flopped. Here’s hoping some others can go where they couldn’t.
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1. bdavbdav ◴[20 Dec 24 08:04 UTC] No.42469160[source]▶
I guess the difference here is that HA has a huge community already. I believe the estimate was around 250k installations running actively. I suspect a huge chunk of the HA users venn diagram slice fits within the voice users slice.
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2. balloob ◴[20 Dec 24 11:31 UTC] No.42470242[source]▶
Our estimates are more than a million active instances https://analytics.home-assistant.io/
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3. emsixteen ◴[20 Dec 24 13:38 UTC] No.42470953[source]▶
More than a million? It says on the page: "424,548 Active Home Assistant Installations"

Am I missing something? Is it that these are just those you know are sharing details, and you can scale that up by a known percentage? :)

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4. schnapsidee ◴[20 Dec 24 15:07 UTC] No.42471673{3}[source]▶
> Analytics in Home Assistant are opt-in and do not reflect the entire Home Assistant userbase. We estimate that a third of all Home Assistant users opt in.
5. alias_neo ◴[20 Dec 24 16:09 UTC] No.42472285{3}[source]▶
I'm a big fan of home assistant, and use it to control a LOT of my home, have done for years, have tonnes of hardware dedicated to and for it, and I've also ordered some of these Voice devices.

I'm also opted OUT of the analytics.