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[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (3 children)

As long as processing is offloaded to the cloud, something's gotta pay for it, either a subscription or your personal data.

Problem is, I don't trust Amazon to not double dip, so fuck 'em.

We need offline personal assistants, support Home Assistant.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Exactly, the problem is that even if you pay for the subscription, they will still use your data for their profit. Big companies are so abusive...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I mean I thought the whole point of Alexa was to make you buy more stuff from Amazon?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

For speech recognition there is also heywillow.io