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The era of open voice assistants

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878 points _Microft | 2 comments | 20 Dec 24 00:29 UTC | HN request time: 0.418s | 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. sirtaj ◴[20 Dec 24 15:56 UTC] No.42472166[source]▶
I've been using the HA cloud voice assistant on my phone for the past few weeks, and it's such a great change from Alexa, because integrating new services and adding sentences is actually possible.

Alexa, on the other hand, won't even allow a third party app to read its shopping list. It's no longer clear to me why Alexa even exists any more except as a kitchen timer.

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2. baq ◴[20 Dec 24 17:19 UTC] No.42472904[source]▶
They must be working on a LLM backend for it so it isn't dumb as a rock.

Nothing makes sense otherwise, agreed.