[ethagnawl]

I'm looking forward to trying this. Hopefully this gains traction, as (AFAIK) an open, reliable, flexible, privacy focused voice assistant is still sorely needed.

About a year ago, my family was really keen on getting an Alexa. I don't want Bezos spy devices in our home, so I convinced them to let me try making our own. I went with Mycroft on a Pi 4 and it did not go well. The wake word detection was inconsistent, the integrations were lacking and I think it'd been effectively abandoned by that point. I'd intended to contribute to the project and some of the integrations I was struggling with but life intervened and I never got back to it. Also, thankfully, my family forgot about the Alexa.

[genewitch]

some "maker" products that were sold at target had a cardboard box with an arcade RGB-LED button on top, a speaker, and 4 microphones on a "hat" for a rpi... nano? pico? whatever the one that is roughly the size of a sodimm. It didn't have a wakeword, you'd push the white-lit button, it would change color twice, once to acknowledge the press, and again to indicate it was listening. It would change color once you finished speaking and then it would speak back to you.

It used some google thing on the backend, and it was really frustrating to get set up and keep working - but it did work.

i have two of those devices, so i've been waiting for something to come that would let me self-host something similar.

[nkaz123]

I'm really inspired reading this and hope it can help! I'm planning to put more work into this. I have a few rough demos of it in action on youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OryGVbh5JZE) which should give you an idea of the quality of it at the moment.