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

submitted 6 months 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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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Home assistant has a voice assistant feature

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 0 points 6 months ago

It does, but it still has the same inabilities as the screen interface has