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

submitted 13 hours ago by cm0002@libretechni.ca to c/linux@programming.dev

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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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[–] grue@lemmy.world 60 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Home Assistant has been heavily working on that sort of functionality lately.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 14 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Home assistant continues to be fantastic, I remember it was what felt like fairly recently that all we had was OpenHAB and although it was fine, it was a bit of an uphill struggle to do anything.

[–] fonix232@fedia.io 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

There were like, about two years between OpenHAB and HA being released. Former debuted in 2011, HA saw first release in 2013.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Oh really? I could have sworn HA was a fair bit later than that

I think I used OpenHAB between about 2013 and 2018, then switched to HA around then after discovering it and reading about it for a couple of weeks.

Must have just had my head in the sand then!

[–] fonix232@fedia.io 2 points 1 hour ago

To be fair, in the early days HA wasn't too usable. Even around 2018-19, the integrations were limited and the core logic was quite wonky. I'd say around 2020 it became mature enough for daily use for non-tinkerers.