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Do you guys think there will ever be a FOSS voice assistant? (kbin.social)

submitted 10 months ago by milkytoast@kbin.social to c/foss@beehaw.org

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Theres Dicio, which honestly does all that I need a voice assistant to do, but I have to open the app to use it, I cant just say "Hey Dicio" or whatever. Is something like that possible?

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[–] mfenniak@beehaw.org 76 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Home Assistant invested quite a bit into the technology to create a FOSS voice assistant over the past year. It still needs quite a bit of work, but the foundation is there; it supports wake words ("Hey ..."), speech-to-text to hear your command, interpretation and command processing, and text-to-speech to return results.

The downsides are that it's still quite technical to set up primarily due to the lack of commercially available hardware, and the command library is fairly small at this point.

With some of this foundational work out of the way, I expect Home Assistant to move forward quickly to improve, and other projects can work off the same pieces if they desire to as well.

Here's their year-end post about it: https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/12/13/year-of-the-voice-chapter-5/

[–] milkytoast@kbin.social 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

should have clarified, I'm not looking for a home assistant, I'm looking for a voice assistant on my phone. either way super exited to see where they take this

[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 12 points 10 months ago

I don't see how being home-assistant excludes it from working on your phone. The only difference is that your phone acts as the "satellite" rather than a stationary device.

[–] chris@lem.cochrun.xyz 1 points 10 months ago

While that's true, all the things they built are individual and open source, it wouldn't take too much work for sometime who knows how to package things up for a phone app. That said, you'd need another device to do all the processing.

[–] seang96@spgrn.com 1 points 10 months ago

I have been trying to get home assistant voice assistant to work in my kurbenetes cluster. The documentation is nearlynon existant for configuring it without using their dedicated core OS version with the addon store.

Second issue is the esphone $13 voice assistant setup they have, the integration requires a UDP port for every audio steam. Home assistant picks a random UDP port currently which sucks for kurbenetes, docker you have to set to host networking mode. Someone made a patch that allows you to specify your own range, but I haven't gotten it working with the patch yet. It looks like their maybe an issue with the esphone device not using the correct channel for the microphone so nothing is being recorded.