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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: 0.199s | source
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dboreham ◴[20 Dec 24 15:14 UTC] No.42471768[source]▶
It isn't even one year since the press stories about how dumb a product Alexa was and how it makes no money and all the devs are getting laid off. Something changed now?
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1. eightysixfour ◴[20 Dec 24 15:19 UTC] No.42471822[source]▶
It was a bad product at making money for Amazon, but they are useful for smart homes. Home Assistant is pretty squarely in the smart home category.

I bought two the second they were announced, I already use the software stack with the m5 atoms and they are terrible devices, but the software works well enough for me.