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Amazon Mulls $5 to $10 monthly price tag for unprofitable Alexa service, AI revamp (www.reuters.com)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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Amazon (AMZN.O) is planning a major revamp of its decade-old money-losing Alexa service to include a conversational generative AI with two tiers of service and has considered a monthly fee of around $5 to access the superior version, according to people with direct knowledge of the company's plans.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Home Assistant will always be free.

[–] thirteene 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Any recommendations for a voice tool? It felt like I would need to setup a room microphone on my orange pi when I was reading the docs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I haven't done it myself but it looks like you'll need some esphome devices like a speaker and a microphone

[–] subtext 1 points 5 months ago

It doesn’t help you if you need something right now, but Home Assistant is looking into building / engineering their own voice satellite device

https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/06/12/roadmap-2024h1/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Is it able to use a LLM?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago

Yeah, you can plug it into a few external services like OpenAI or even use a local LLM like LocalAI. Not used either, but I know it's possible.