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making an Alexa copy (sorta) (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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So my girlfriend has an Alexa and really likes it but I'm not comfortable living in a house with one. How much technical knowledge would I need to make a speaker that connects to a music player app and is voice activated because that is all she uses it for.

I figure I could hook up a raspberry pi to a speaker and add a mic and voice command software that I find somewhere but I've never actually done anything like this before.

How feasible is this

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[–] dot20@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Take a look at Mycroft

[–] Extrasvhx9he 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thought that was a dead project

[–] JoeyJoeJoeJr@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

The community forked the core a while back: https://github.com/openVoiceOS/

See also https://neon.ai/, which builds on top of OVOS, and is who the Mycroft company officially passed the reigns to.

[–] hellfire103@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

I thought it still worked, though.