Yeah not intending to downplay what the author created, but the voice recognition and voice commands are kind of the key advertised feature of Alexa, so calling something without those an "Alexa knockoff" is a stretch at best.
Based on this title style I built a google and gmail knockoff - using index cards, ink and paper and postage stamps. It doesn't spy on me - but also doesn't work at all like google or gmail!
Yeah, I was expecting to see a blog post about raspberry pi speech recognition. I was hoping it wasn't just another "look, Ma, I did speech recognition! (By sending everything to <cloud API>)" but I was prepared to be disappointed on that front because such posts are endemic these days. Turns out, it didn't engage with speech recognition at all, which was even more jarring.
Speaking of rpi offline speech recognition, is Jasper still the go-to? If you're willing to spring for one of the shiny new nvidia SBCs, is there an open source option that can take advantage of their power (with lower effort than "glue everything together manually with tensorflow")?
While it doesn't offer what Alexa does, I'd like to point out that Mycroft would be easy to add to this project. I haven't really worked with it, but I did want to point it out for people who are coming into the comments looking for an actual open source Alexa competitor.
If this was to be called an "Alexa alternative", there should at least be Home Assistant running on that Raspberry Pi. Despite also not having voice recognition, it could then at least be able to, you know, DO something.
It's a knockoff, but doesn't include NLU or ASR capabilities so really it's a shitty tablet on a kickstand I could have purchased for roughly the same price with more features.
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The "Alexa" knockoff has no voice recognition!
Based on this title style I built a google and gmail knockoff - using index cards, ink and paper and postage stamps. It doesn't spy on me - but also doesn't work at all like google or gmail!
Better title:
I built an LCD display that displays information?
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Speaking of rpi offline speech recognition, is Jasper still the go-to? If you're willing to spring for one of the shiny new nvidia SBCs, is there an open source option that can take advantage of their power (with lower effort than "glue everything together manually with tensorflow")?
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