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?
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/
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
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.
Mycroft is defunct
Source?
They probably mean this: https://mycroft.ai/blog/update-from-the-ceo-part-1/
https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/13/linux_ai_assistant_killed_off/
Wikipedia entry: “In early 2023, Mycroft AI ceased development.”
Is it delivery? No! It’s Dicio.
I’ll see myself out…
I don’t mean to Dicio but that was a bad pun.
😂
Don’t forget your pizza
Home assistant is getting into voice assistants. I’m considering getting a few to try jt out
I don’t know Dicio, but I mean can you just leave the app open? Because that’s essentially what the other assistants are, just devices with the app always open.
If you can leave the app open, and it otherwise complies with your requirements, then we already have a FOSS voice assistant, it just doesn’t have its own dedicated hardware yet. But if you would dedicate some hardware to it, like an old phone, then it could be largely equivalent.
There could be a software implementation that works perfectly fine on desktop PCs, especially Linux, but problem is hardware. I don’t see commercial smartphone manufactures giving access to ‘unauthorized uses’ like foss projects usually go around.
You’re right. The ‘open source’ android phones are the perfect example. But FOSS needs to stop relying on these fascist hardware stack and opt for better open modular platforms. We have examples for such things - like the framework laptops or fairphones. It’s somewhat tolerable for laptops. But we are still too far behind in terms of mobiles and desk boxes needed for these sorts of projects.
considering android allows you to actively change the default assistant it won’t be a problem, we already have plenty of apps that use overlays that are foss so that’s not an issue either, so I really have no idea what you think would be locked down here.
dicio is just kind of a clunky app
There’s Mycroft AI
There’s one you can use with Home Assistant that works pretty well for home automation commands.
I’ve just found that I don’t really like using voice control for things…
