[TriLUG] FOSS voice assistant framework

[Tim Jowers via TriLUG]

Thank you Phillip, Jack, and Igor. Bought an echo a few weeks ago and
definitely a sea change/fundamental change there. Just can't put my finger
on what yet... :-)

On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 11:02 AM, Phillip Rhodes (Fogbeam Labs) <
fogbeam at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have not yet, but I had a similar idea recently... get voice reco
> running on an rPi and build sort of a DIY alexa.  It's something I want to
> explore, but just haven't had a lot of time to put into it.   But FWIW, my
> earliest thought was to use CMU Sphinx[1] for the voice recognition part.
>
> If anybody starts on a project like this, please do share with the list
> from time to time... I know I'd love to hear about whatever results you
> achieve. And I imagine others will as well.
>
>
> [1]: https://cmusphinx.github.io/
>
> On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 10:32 AM, Jack Hill via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 18 Jul 2017, Tim Jowers via TriLUG wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Has anyone worked with a FOSS voice assistance framework?  I am not
>>> really
>>> happy with Siri, Samsung, or Alexa from the developers perspective. I
>>> imagine one could setup something with a raspberry pi DIY etc so people
>>> could input voice and get back help.
>>>
>>> To me, seems like a great opportunity for collaboration and also for FOSS
>>> to provide revenue streams to developers. One issue with the big
>>> companies
>>> is they tend to take over any good ideas and bundle them. ("bundling"
>>> technique of market dominance)
>>>
>>> Also not happy from the user's perspective as Alexa has exposed my 6 year
>>> old and several neighbors repeatedly to curse words and no telling what
>>> concepts. I called Amazon and they said they would work on it if they get
>>> enough requests. At this point, had to disallow usage unless parents are
>>> present. Samsung voice assistance is really weak, of course.
>>>
>>> Been years since we touched on this stuff in college; so, let me know if
>>> there is any formal collaboration on language modeling/ontology stuff,
>>> too.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>> Tim
>>>
>>
>> Tim,
>>
>> Just yesterday, I became aware of two projects to create free machine
>> learning models of voice recognition:
>>
>> https://voice.mozilla.org/
>> http://www.voxforge.org/
>>
>> As I understand it, the idea is that speech recognition software needs a
>> huge corpus of training data to work well (which is exactly what Google and
>> Amazon have). With some extra constraints (like a limited vocabulary) you
>> may be able to get by with less training data.
>>
>> As far as actual utilities that make use of voice recognition, I was able
>> to find
>>
>> https://cmusphinx.github.io/2015/01/ila-voice-assistant/
>> https://cmusphinx.github.io/2014/04/jasper-personal-assistan
>> t-for-raspberry-pi/
>>
>> I haven't use them, so can't make a recommendation, but it could be
>> interesting.
>>
>> Best,
>> Jack
>>
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