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Are there any good FOSS Voice Assistants today? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've searched the internet a bit, but couldn't find what I was looking for.

I saw Leon, but it doesn't have an android client, for example.

Is there good assistances, that you can self host and use on your phone? and that can perform actions like make a phone call, play music, send WhatsApp etc?

I'm not a big user of these, but recently I used Google Assistant and found it was very convenient in my case. So ofc I wanted the benefit without all the spying.

Would ideally look for something that I can self host on my VPS (oracle cloud) and run a client on Android.

thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Home Assistant people have been working pretty hard on it recently, haven't tried it but it seems promising

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Whats it called?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/12/19/voice-preview-edition-the-era-of-open-voice/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

the offline thing is awesome. finally what I want.

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

Well HomeAssistant launched one just recently

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There's a YouTuber called NetworkChuck who has a few videos on hooking Home Assistant up to Ollama. Here's the first one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvbVePuP7NY

(I find his style to be slightly bombastic and annoying, but the info seems good.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Liked especially because of the comment about network Chuck being bombastic and annoying.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Top post on /C/home assistant https://sh.itjust.works/post/29734869

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Dicio is a client side Android assistant that can do some things and respond to voice commands. In my experience it drains the battery and isn't as good as commercial alternatives though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

SEPIA

I always want to try it but never. Form the docs it seems a complex, no so plug-and-play system.

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

Mycroft perhaps

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

They don't exist as a company anymore and the device itself was basically just a pi with a display, camera and mic and without a capable software. (afaik)

https://community.openconversational.ai/t/update-from-the-ceo-part-1/13268