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making an Alexa copy (sorta) (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So my girlfriend has an Alexa and really likes it but I'm not comfortable living in a house with one. How much technical knowledge would I need to make a speaker that connects to a music player app and is voice activated because that is all she uses it for.

I figure I could hook up a raspberry pi to a speaker and add a mic and voice command software that I find somewhere but I've never actually done anything like this before.

How feasible is this

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Home assistant declared this year to be the year of the voice. There's a ton of development happening to achieve this with full local control.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

And here is hardware that works with home assistant.

https://heywillow.io/

[–] dot20 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Take a look at Mycroft

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Thought that was a dead project

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I thought it still worked, though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

The community forked the core a while back: https://github.com/openVoiceOS/

See also https://neon.ai/, which builds on top of OVOS, and is who the Mycroft company officially passed the reigns to.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

If you are not in the mood for doing much tinkering, there is a German electronics manufacturer called TechniSat and they sell a multi-function radio called DIGITRADIO 3 VOICE. It has an offline voice assistant. The voice commands can be used to pause, change audio source, increase volume, etc. The radio deck has okay-ish sound, I wouldn’t call it hi-fi but it doesn’t sound like two tin cans. The function is actually for blind people (I bought one for my grandma who is legally blind), but I guess privacy enthusiasts would find it adequate, too.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Good thing she isn't illegally blind :D. Yeah I'll show myself the door.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Mycroft?