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voice assistant platform
SHOW HN2017
372points
129comments
#41of 2,242 in 2017
Top 2%of 2017 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
21 positive, 43 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 11 critical, out of 76 comments about the project. Thread score +0.15.
Idea: 8 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 5 for, 2 againstDocs: 1 for, 4 againstPerformance: 0 for, 3 againstPricing: 1 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Privacy-first on-device design
From 2 comments
This is awesome. Every other assistant AI type product seems to be designed primarily as a pretext for invading its users' privacy. Thanks for building something that might be…
taneq on HNOoo, the intent interface is brilliant I've been struggling with alexa and google assistant, to make something useful for embedding. So much backwards and forwards with setting…
KaiserPro on HN
Intent interface is well designed
From 1 comment
Ooo, the intent interface is brilliant I've been struggling with alexa and google assistant, to make something useful for embedding. So much backwards and forwards with setting…
KaiserPro on HN
Objections
Source code not released, so privacy claims are unverifiable
From 3 comments
Without source code that seems like all smoke and mirrors to me. I'd love it if they released it, and I'd start buying their stuff immediately. But until they put their money…
CaptSpify on HNA source code release (even under a non-free license) would be much appreciated for those of us who would rather actually attempt to build this for non-RPi platforms ourselves…
yellowapple on HNMaybe I'm missing the obvious, but where's the source? I don't see a link anywhere?
CaptSpify on HN
Speech recognition may rely on Google/Apple APIs
From 1 comment
Last time I was at a machine learning meetup where Rand gave a speech about the features of your framework he told us that for the speech recognition part you were using…
Ekami on HN
Requests
Open source the code and models
From 3 comments
Will you publish the model model and Tensorflow source? Or is this just a binary install?
paulsutter on HNI found your github[1] which includes platform documentation[2] and various API code but I didn't see any trained weights or Tensorflow models. Some users might want to extend…
paulsutter on HNA source code release (even under a non-free license) would be much appreciated for those of us who would rather actually attempt to build this for non-RPi platforms ourselves…
yellowapple on HN
Japanese language support
From 1 comment
i wait japanese language support
taoice on HN
iOS and non-Raspberry Pi platform support
From 3 comments
iOS support?
BadThink6655321 on HNIs there potential for a MIPS build? Would be excited to try this out on an Onion Omega.
mattcoles on HNA source code release (even under a non-free license) would be much appreciated for those of us who would rather actually attempt to build this for non-RPi platforms ourselves…
yellowapple on HN
Questions
What is the pricing?
From 1 comment
Great! Glad to see someone doing IoT the right way! What's the pricing though? I have an impression this is a paid product, but no pricing info is present. EDIT: also, in…
TeMPOraL on HN
Which microphones work with the Pi?
From 1 comment
what kind of microphone do you recommend for pi?
thro1237 on HN
Which ASR engine is used, and is it homebrew?
From 2 comments
Is this a homebrew speech recognition engine, or are you using something existing like sphinx/julius/kaldi?
skykooler on HNThat is a great benchmark. Can you give a rough idea of how your NLU works? Or some keywords to search?
IshKebab on HN
Alternatives named
Mycroft Picroft
From 1 comment
Cool, I have been experimenting with Google's VoiceHAT board, and the Picroft open source voice control from Mycroft which runs on Pi, both of which are fairly straightforward to…
jhewitt123 on HN
Google VoiceHAT
From 1 comment
Cool, I have been experimenting with Google's VoiceHAT board, and the Picroft open source voice control from Mycroft which runs on Pi, both of which are fairly straightforward to…
jhewitt123 on HN
Apple on-device Siri/HomePod
From 1 comment
You should take a look at what Apple is doing if you think that. Especially the developments announced last week. Going forward I would expect to see a vast number of products on…
natch on HN
api.ai
From 1 comment
Hi! We are comparing what you get by using an alternative service like api.ai (which you need to start by feeding manually) with what you can do with our solution. Manually…
oulipo on HN