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The era of open voice assistants

(www.home-assistant.io)
879 points _Microft | 4 comments | 20 Dec 24 00:29 UTC | HN request time: 0.603s | source
1. sreejithr ◴[20 Dec 24 17:34 UTC] No.42473038[source]▶
Genuine question - How hackable is this? Can I have the voice commands redirected to my backend server where I can process it as I please?
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2. balloob ◴[20 Dec 24 17:38 UTC] No.42473075[source]▶
This is Home Assistant. Everything is hackable.

Inside Home Assistant the processing is delegated to integrations providing Speech-to-Text, command processing, Text-to-Speech. You can make custom integrations for all of them

3. entropicdrifter ◴[20 Dec 24 17:41 UTC] No.42473102[source]▶
It's fully open-source. I think the default use-case is to have the voice commands processed locally
4. throwawayq3423 ◴[20 Dec 24 19:40 UTC] No.42474236[source]▶
Probably as much as any other smart speaker without having to give your data away.