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Amazon plans to give Alexa an AI overhaul — and a monthly subscription price (www.cnbc.com)
submitted 7 months ago by Wilshire to c/technology
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[–] eodur 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Home Assistant is a great alternative. It gets better and better as all Google and Alexa get worse and worse.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

What are you using for microphones?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Why the downvotes? this is a legitimate good question as there are many available and people may have important experiences to share. Looking to set up my own someday (hopefully soon) and am interested in what has worked well for people as well.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Probably because they've asked it four times in this post

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

If only any of those questions had a legit answer D: I’m curious too.

[–] ashok36 2 points 7 months ago

Bluetooth and USB speakerphones seem to work fairly well as both mic and speaker. I think thr sennheiser sp20 has been in a couple tinkerers posts I've seen.