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I just assumed they were already doing this and have never considered them to be something anyone should ever put in their home.
One year, my parents bought all their adult children the Echo for Christmas. Mine got lost in the mail. So they ordered me another one. Also got lost somehow! I was the only one who didn’t get one. Christmas blessings!
Who the fuck buys these things anyway
My parents, my parents church, my in-laws, my sister, my wife’s friends, my old dentist, my old doctor, and several acquaintances.
So that’s like… At least 3 people.
I know multiple people who stick these in every room of their houses. They’re surprisingly super popular among normies in the US.
Did people who care about privacy actually buy Echos?..
Yeah that’s a no from me dawg
Anyone have experience with locally run alternatives to this kind of device? Voice recognition technology has gotten pretty good by now, it should be possible
I use Home Assistant and I’m getting ready to swap over to their local voice control from Google devices.
You can source your own devices or use their device when it becomes available.
Just a heads-up, Home Assistant Voice Preview edition is pretty rough right now. It’s nowhere near good enough that I’d buy one for every room.
A lot of the issues are just software related, so there’s no reason it can’t get as good as a commercial device.
This guy explains it well: https://youtu.be/L4ONmyjG6ec
That being said, it’s neat, and I’m running both the tts and stt locally on my Home Assistant server! No Internet access at all, entirely local! It’s remarkable.
If you want to see what I mean, you can setup tts and stt on your Home Assistant without buying the hardware device and just talk to it with your phone and the app installed. You’ll see it’s kind of slow to respond and really gets hung up trying to parse the commands.
I don’t regret getting the hardware, it’s really neat, but I’m not going to rush to get any more at this time. I’ll wait a while for the software side to catch up.
Is this something you could run off of a modded echo?
Someone posted a build where they modded Google home mini, but that required a custom PCB. I can only assume it would be the same or more difficult with an Amazon device.
I’ve looked into and honestly they cover most of what people use the listening device for. Only issue is that they can be a bit slow and are often quite expensive. Haven’t checked in over a year though and tech like this can advance quickly.
I guess those few echoes left out there will hear a couple final words soon enough:
“Bye bye”
Hell, I would almost want to buy one so I could wait until the fateful day and then say “Echo, get the fuck out!” and unplug it.
