Mycroft is the world’s first open source assistant.

Mycroft runs anywhere – on a desktop computer, inside an automobile, or on a Raspberry Pi. This is open source software which can be freely remixed, extended, and improved. Mycroft may be used in anything from a science project to an enterprise software application.

https://mycroft.ai

News
https://mycroft.ai/blog

Mycroft skills
https://mycroftai.github.io/mycroft-skills

Mimic TTS
Mycroft’s Mimic Text to Speech technology. Mimic is now a deep learning based Text-to-Speech (TTS) engine trained on audio recordings from a single speaker.
https://mycroft.ai/blog/mimic-2-is-live

https://github.com/MycroftAI/mimic2


Sources
https://github.com/MycroftAI

Community
https://community.mycroft.ai

Telegram
https://t.me/mycroft_ai


📡 @NoGoolag
#mycroft #assistant #voice #speech #tts

Google's recent patent application reveals its digital assistant would analyze footage of your home and link that to your search history to promote more targeted marketing

"Privacy-aware personalized content for the smart home"
https://patents.google.com/patent/US20160260135A1

Privacy-aware means that it is completely aware of the concept of privacy, and it doesn't give a fuck


#why #google #assistant #patent

Goolag Assistant works with microg 😆

Trick:
Restoring data of the app from a backup done in gapps with titanium backup, migrate or similar and giving permissions to it.
Or with gapps, wiping system partition and flashing rom+magisk+microg installer

Some others reported to work:
-Google photo backup
-Google call screening (the spyware that talks to the caller and you see a live transcript and can click follow ups)

Note: we don't endorse this spyware in any way

#assistant #photo

Assistant applications

Google assistant works by learning everything about you.
MicroG aims to let Google learn nothing about you.

Alternatives you can use:

♦ Saiy
-- Fully customizable open source voice assistant -- https://t.me/libreware/198
-- (Needs Google Assistant right now but working on removing that dependancy)


♦ Dragonfire
-- https://t.me/libreware/207

♦ Just search
-- Simple internet search shortcut
-- https://f-droid.org/app/co.pxhouse.sas

📡 @NoGoolag
#assistant #search #alternatives

https://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-alexa-transcripts-live-on-even-after-you-delete-voice-records

#amazon #alexa #why #voice #assistant

In a rare move, Apple, Amazon, and Google just announced a major partnership

businessinsider.com/apple-amazon-google-partner-on-smart-home-tech-2019-12

#wiretap #assistant #speakers #apple #amazon #google

Google-free /e/OS android rom is working on its own privacy-friendly Siri alternative called Elivia

https://news.itsfoss.com/elivia-open-source-smart-assistant/


#assistant #e #eos #elivia

Rhasspy Voice Assistant

Rhasspy (pronounced RAH-SPEE) is an open source, fully offline set of voice assistant services for many human languages 

https://github.com/rhasspy/rhasspy

https://rhasspy.readthedocs.io/en/v2.4.20/wake-word/

https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/edcxb3/rhasspy_vs_mycroft_vs_ada_almond/


#rhasspy #voice #assistant

How Amazon Assistant lets Amazon track your every move on the web

I recently noticed that Amazon is promoting their Amazon Assistant extension quite aggressively. With success: while not all browsers vendors provide usable extension statistics, it would appear that this extension has beyond 10 million users across Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Edge. Reason enough to look into what this extension is doing and how.

Here I must say that the privacy expectations for shopping assistants aren’t very high to start with. Still, I was astonished to discover that Amazon built the perfect machinery to let them track any Amazon Assistant user or all of them: what they view and for how long, what they search on the web, what accounts they are logged into and more. Amazon could also mess with the web experience at will and for example hijack competitors’ web shops.

https://palant.info/2021/03/08/how-amazon-assistant-lets-amazon-track-your-every-move-on-the-web/

#amazon #assistant #browser #extension #privacy

Google reiterates Assistant recordings aren't listened to by employees

Original article:
Google has reportedly admitted that the Google Assistant records user audio even when it’s not triggered by the “Ok Google” hotword.

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-assistant-secret-recording-1637045/

#wiretap #Google #assistant

Dicio
Voice assistant app for Android

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 uses Vosk for speech to text. It has multilanguage support, and is currently available in these languages: English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Russian and Spanish.

Features:

Search: looks up information on DuckDuckGo.
Weather: weather information from OpenWeatherMap
Lyrics: shows Genius lyrics for songs.
Open: open an app on your device.
Telephone: view and call contacts
Timer: set, query and cancel timers

Download: https://f-droid.org/packages/org.dicio.dicio_android

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

#New #Assistant #Voice

@foss_Android

Project Alice

Project Alice is a smart #voice home #assistant that is completely modular and extensible. It was first built around Snips therefore runs entirely offline and never sends or shares your voice interactions with anyone, Project Alice guarantees your privacy in your home or wherever you’re using Project Alice.

However, as an option, since we've built Project Alice on top of Snips, Project Alice can be configured to use some online alternatives and fall backs (for example, using Amazon or Google’s Text to Speech engines), just like Snips. Since Snips (and the Project Alice team) strongly believe that decisions about your privacy should be made by you and you alone, these options are all disabled by default.

https://github.com/project-alice-assistant/ProjectAlice

Comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31227488


#voice #assistant #home

Creator of #Mycroft Linux virtual #assistant blames 'patent troll' for project's death

Article, Comments

Awesome-totally-open-ChatGPT

A list of open alternatives to ChatGPT

ChatGPT is GPT-3.5 with RLHF (Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback) for chat system.

By alternative, I mean projects feature different language model for chat system. Projects are not counted if they are:
• alternative frontend projects because they just call the API from OpenAI.
• alternative transformer decoder • models to GPT 3.5 either because the training data of them are (mostly) not for chat system.

https://github.com/nichtdax/awesome-totally-open-chatgpt

#ai #chatgpt #assistant #alternatives

Ultimate #ai #assistant

#ChatGPT with a voice interface

https://github.com/lspahija/ultimate-ai-assistant

https://ultimate-ai-assistant.up.railway.app/

OpenAssistant

Open-source Chat AI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddG2fM9i4Kk

Try the chat: https://open-assistant.io/chat
Homepage: https://open-assistant.io
Dataset: https://huggingface.co/datasets/OpenAssistant/oasst1
Code: https://github.com/LAION-AI/Open-Assistant
Paper (temporary): https://ykilcher.com/oa-paper

#openassistant #chatgpt #ai #assistant

Project Bringing Hardware Accelerated Language Models to Android Devices

We introduce MLC LLM for Android – a solution that allows large language models to be deployed natively on Android devices, plus a productive framework for everyone to further optimize model performance for their use cases. Everything runs locally and accelerated with native GPU on the phone.

We can run Vicuña-7b on Android Samsung Galaxy S23.

Github https://github.com/mlc-ai/mlc-llm/tree/main/android

Demo: https://mlc.ai/mlc-llm/#android

#ai #assistant #gpt #android