Dicio assistant

Dicio is a free and open source #voice #assistant running on #Android. It supports many different skills and input/output methods, and it provides both speech and graphical feedback to a question. It interprets user input and (when possible) generates user output entirely on-device, providing privacy by design. It has multilanguage support, and is currently available in these languages: Czech, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish and Ukrainian. Open to contributions :-D

https://github.com/Stypox/dicio-android

Download
https://f-droid.org/packages/org.stypox.dicio
https://github.com/Stypox/dicio-android/releases
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.stypox.dicio

Skills
Currently Dicio answers questions about:
search: looks up information on DuckDuckGo (and in the future more engines) - Search for Dicio
weather: collects weather information from OpenWeatherMap - What's the weather like?
lyrics: shows Genius lyrics for songs - What's the song that goes we will we will rock you?
open: opens an app on your device - Open NewPipe
calculator: evaluates basic calculations - What is four thousand and two times three minus a million divided by three hundred?
telephone: view and call contacts - Call Tom
timer: set, query and cancel timers - Set a timer for five minutes
current time: query current time - What time is it?
navigation: opens the navigation app at the requested position - Take me to New York, fifteenth avenue
media: play, pause, previous, next song

Speech to text
Dicio uses Vosk as its speech to text (#STT) engine. In order to be able to run on every phone small models are employed, weighing ~50MB. The download from here starts automatically whenever needed, so the app language can be changed seamlessly.

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