Ooh! Exciting stuff. I hope somebody figures out an open speech-to-text model in the near future, it would be really neat to have a fully open replacement for those corporate microphones.
Ooh! Exciting stuff. I hope somebody figures out an open
speech-to-text model in the near future, it would be really neat
to have a fully open replacement for those corporate
microphones.
There’s always Ada/Almond, as outlined in this (very) old release
blog entry:
I agree. In general I’m not a big fan of voice controls, don’t really know why. But home automation is perhaps the one place where I find it very useful. Something open would be amazing, not just to maintain control, but the commercial options require a publicly available server (solved with Home Assistant Cloud, but still).
I use kaldi-active-grammar on long days (think coding AND chatting with friends a lot). It works pretty well although I do still have to repeat stuff due to using a model that isn’t trained on this microphone and the microphone being pretty bad. It’s much better in the demo video in that README.
I haven’t used it for years, but Sphinx worked very well for commands (limited grammar / vocabulary, versus dictation needing to recognise all of English).
No, I’m imagining Home Assistant as the back-end of an open voice assistant someday. Most of what things like the Echo are used for (at least, by me…) is controlling smart devices.
I’d bet on talon, it comes with really really good speech models that you can use right now to write code hands-free, or automate your local machine. Automating a whole home should be a trivial step from there (the main issue I think is feedback), with the right scripts
Oooh, I get it! Yeah, I’d love to ditch the software and keep the hardware of the Echo devices, so I interpreted it as how you would reuse the hardware with stock Linux, but it’s obvious that one wouldn’t need the hardware. :facepalm:
Ooh! Exciting stuff. I hope somebody figures out an open speech-to-text model in the near future, it would be really neat to have a fully open replacement for those corporate microphones.
There’s always Ada/Almond, as outlined in this (very) old release blog entry:
https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2019/11/20/privacy-focused-voice-assistant/
I agree. In general I’m not a big fan of voice controls, don’t really know why. But home automation is perhaps the one place where I find it very useful. Something open would be amazing, not just to maintain control, but the commercial options require a publicly available server (solved with Home Assistant Cloud, but still).
I use kaldi-active-grammar on long days (think coding AND chatting with friends a lot). It works pretty well although I do still have to repeat stuff due to using a model that isn’t trained on this microphone and the microphone being pretty bad. It’s much better in the demo video in that README.
Mozilla speech?
I haven’t used it for years, but Sphinx worked very well for commands (limited grammar / vocabulary, versus dictation needing to recognise all of English).
I think you meant to post this on the Amazon Echo thread?
No, I’m imagining Home Assistant as the back-end of an open voice assistant someday. Most of what things like the Echo are used for (at least, by me…) is controlling smart devices.
I’d bet on talon, it comes with really really good speech models that you can use right now to write code hands-free, or automate your local machine. Automating a whole home should be a trivial step from there (the main issue I think is feedback), with the right scripts
Oooh, I get it! Yeah, I’d love to ditch the software and keep the hardware of the Echo devices, so I interpreted it as how you would reuse the hardware with stock Linux, but it’s obvious that one wouldn’t need the hardware. :facepalm:
Well, it’s… mathematicians would say “self-evident”. Obvious, but only once you hear it. Easy to miss otherwise. Don’t be too hard on yourself. <3