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?

  • Drinvictus@discuss.tchncs.de
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    6 months ago

    There is no reason why it should not exist other than the fact that there really is no interest. Except for a few uses here and there (driving for example), voice assistants are just gimmicks.

  • sub_o@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I don’t know if it fits all the prereqs of a FOSS, but there’s mycroft and there’s also jasper

    But I have no idea how advanced they are, or how good their 3rd party integrations are.

  • rar@discuss.online
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    6 months ago

    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.

    • drwankingstein@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      6 months ago

      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

    • 4dpuzzle@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      6 months ago

      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.

  • Mathieu@beehaw.org
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    6 months ago

    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.socialOP
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      6 months ago

      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

  • Azzu@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    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.

  • dom@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    Home assistant is getting into voice assistants. I’m considering getting a few to try jt out