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by milofeynman 2132 days ago
I was hoping DeepSpeech would lead to in home cloud-less "Alexas". Just ask me for a subscription on it and productize it please.
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ahP7Deew 2132 days ago
So to confirm what you have in mind:

That's a physical device with all computation and information local?

And you'd pay for an upfront cost of the device as well as a subscription?

What comes with the subscription? Updated data, new features? Just keeping the lights on?

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nshm 2132 days ago
There are many cloud-less Alexas already, a good one is rhasspy https://rhasspy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/, it is not based on deepspeech though.
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nmstoker 2132 days ago
In the repo/docs, it suggests that DeepSpeech is an option for some languages (English & German). Haven't tried it, but with recent(ish) performance improvements in DS it can run on somewhat less powerful computers than used to be the case.

Other options for similar assistants that can also use DS are Mycroft (https://mycroft-ai.gitbook.io/docs/using-mycroft-ai/customiz...) and DragonFire (https://github.com/DragonComputer/Dragonfire)

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