I am looking for a voice assistant that is as private as could be its a NEED not a want. I am aware of Mycroft who has discontinued service. I am aware of Rhasspy but it seems like a lot to setup and maintain.

I'm more looking for how to privatize something mainstream on mobile to always have it with me, not a standalone at home device. I'm talking Alexa, Siri, Google assistant, ect. For to do lists, reminders, looking up questions on the web. The usual use cases. In what ways can one make their assistant a little more privacy friendly without not using one? Which assistant is best? Thanks.

Edit: I've considered setting one behind VPN, Behind something like Pihole to block Calling Home from said app or device.

    • OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      Can you use say futo voice input with OpenAi's API why does one need to use whisper. And Wyoming seems to be an integration with home assistant.

      • ProletarianDictator [none/use name]
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        2 months ago

        You don't need to use Whisper, I got some names mixed up. I was thinking of wyoming-faster-whisper which uses the FOSS speech to text system faster-whisper, but there are others that can be used.

        Edited my original comment to fix that.

        Wyoming is a protocol for voice assistants.

        It ties together:

        • speech recognition services (faster-whisper, vosk, whisper.cpp, OpenAI's Whisper API)
        • text to speech services (piper)
        • wake word detection services (openWakeWord, snowboy, porcupine1)
        • intent handling services
        • intent recognition services

        Home Assistant can interact with that protocol. I think the addons run servers for various components used by the wyoming protocol server that the integration can use, but I run it separate from Home Assistant, so idk.

        Not sure what futo is capable of, but you can use anything that can communicate with a wyoming server. I'm willing to wager you can, but idk.

        OpenAI's ChatGPT API and LLM models are orthogonal to this, but probably could be used as an intent or as the fallback when no other intent was recognized. So I'm pretty sure you could link up getting a response from OpenAI or any other LLM API, but I haven't tried setting that up for myself yet. wyoming-handle-external lets you pipe the input text to the stdin of whatever program you give it and responds with the program's stdout, so you could definitely use this to pass it to OpenAI or Ollama.

        • OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml
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          2 months ago

          I dig this. Especially the speech to text then run the command online. I'm afraid I don't have the current time to implement this and need big brand assistant quickly, I need advice on how to protect my privacy while using alexa, or google assistant, etc.. But damn this is nice. Almost exactly as one would want an AI setup really. Home assistant has came a long way and that is awesome. Those people do good work.