First Steps: Making your own voice activated virtual assistant
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For a long time I’ve thought it would be really cool to have my own completely local replacement for Siri or Alexa that was both not sending my requests off to be monetized and also completely programmable when I wanted it to do custom things and hopefully with ML progress available today, be a lot smarter when it comes to understanding requests. The most important part I always thought was understanding speech which in the past was just unusable, but whisper is incredible and really seems to work beyond expectations out of the box. This is the result of a couple of days of experimentation, by no means complete or even useful, but a sort of closed loop of understanding voice, generating a response, and speaking it back. Hopefully it will serve as a jumping off point for somebody to create something cool.
First Steps: Making your own voice activated virtual assistant
First Steps: Making your own voice activated…
First Steps: Making your own voice activated virtual assistant
For a long time I’ve thought it would be really cool to have my own completely local replacement for Siri or Alexa that was both not sending my requests off to be monetized and also completely programmable when I wanted it to do custom things and hopefully with ML progress available today, be a lot smarter when it comes to understanding requests. The most important part I always thought was understanding speech which in the past was just unusable, but whisper is incredible and really seems to work beyond expectations out of the box. This is the result of a couple of days of experimentation, by no means complete or even useful, but a sort of closed loop of understanding voice, generating a response, and speaking it back. Hopefully it will serve as a jumping off point for somebody to create something cool.