• lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com
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    2 days ago

    I want such a voice thingy, but 100% local.

    Homeassistant is making porgress with this idea, but it’s a slow progress.

    • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOP
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      2 days ago

      That’s how I feel about AI stuff too. Like, I’d love to “Ghibli-fi” my family like everyone else, but I’d prefer to run it locally rather than hand over family photos to one of these AI companies.

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      2 days ago

      Same boat. Tools like this and Gemini make managing my ADHD sooooo much easier. Having a JARVIS-esque “AI personal assistant” would make a lot of my struggles less debilitating. I’d even be willing to pay, as long as the data stayed private.

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          My working memory is terrible. If I don’t write something down, it’s likely forgotten. I’ve always tried to keep a pen and paper on me, to varying degrees of success. Now, instead I can “Hey Google, add x to my grocery list” and it’ll add it to my shopping list in Keep, or “… Create a reminder/alarm/event for…” for reminders to empty the dishwasher in 45 minutes or remember that I just agreed to plans on Saturday.

          I’m not a huge fan of Google anymore, but I still willingly use their services because the tradeoff is that beneficial to me.

      • I think local voice to text algorithms have gotten pretty freaking accurate. You’d need a way to activate listen, send it over the router, then receive the output signal to an Arduino/Raspberry Pi to switch something on or off. I’m sure it’s not terribly difficult to design, but I bet the subscription model is so lucrative no one with the know how would offer a local version.

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      The new update looks great! I’m yet to try it myself though.

      It includes a way to automatically have the voice assistant ask a question, so you only have to respond. E.g. when you come home it can ask: Do you want to play some music? Or when you heat up the oven, it can ask if you want to set a timer. You then just reply with what you want. This is the kind of interaction that makes it feel a lot more like Jarvis IMO.