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The era of open voice assistants

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jfim ◴[] No.42468047[source]
That's a pretty timely release considering Alexa and the Google assistant devices seem to have plateaued or are on the decline.
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IgorPartola ◴[] No.42468486[source]
Curious what you mean by that.
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1. lolinder ◴[] No.42470796[source]
On the Google side it's become basically useless for anything beyond interacting with local devices and setting timers and reminders (in other words, the things that FOSS should be able to do very easily). Its only edge over other options used to be answering questions quickly without having to pull out a screen, but now it refuses to answer anything (likely because Google Search has removed their old quick answers in favor of Gemini answers).