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TIL: There is an open source "Alexa replacement" project (www.openvoiceos.org)

submitted 1 month ago by voytrekk@sopuli.xyz to c/opensource@programming.dev

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/55402381

As Snowden told us, video and audio recording capabilities of your devices are NSA spying vectors. OSS/Linux is a safeguard against such capabilities. The massive datacenter investments in US will be used to classify us all into a patriotic (for Israel)/Oligarchist social credit score, and every mega tech company can increase profits through NSA cooperation, and are legally obligated to cooperate with all government orders.

Speech to text and speech automation are useful tech, though always listening state sponsored terrorists is a non-NSA targeted path for sweeping future social credit classifications of your past life.

Some small LLMs that can be used for speech to text: https://modal.com/blog/open-source-stt

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[–] noughtnaut@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I just want to build a little thing on an esp32 or my old raspi 2b that responds to any "Hey Google/Alexa/Siri" with an indifferent "nah, mate". I just haven't gotten around to putting or together yet.

[–] AvocadoSandwich@eviltoast.org 1 points 1 month ago

Just curious as I couldn't find an answer on my questions on their website. Is this supposed to be an alternative for for example the Home Assistant voice assistant? If so, then currently the Home Assistant platform seems more multifunctional, but I'm probably missing something as their website does say they want to use it for automation and such.