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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: 0s | source
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lxe ◴[20 Dec 24 04:42 UTC] 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. Lanolderen ◴[20 Dec 24 10:52 UTC] No.42470013[source]▶
I'd imagine with 1-2 TVs constantly talking, general conversations and other random noises it'd get expensive quick. Definitely closer to a rack than a RaspPi or old laptop hardware wise. Also add to that more/better mics for coverage and the complexity of it guessing when you're asking it to remind you to buy toothpaste or your SO... It can probably be done by tracking who's home, who's in the room with the speaker, who the speaker is, etc but it's all cost..