Grow Your Own Services
Just had a very weird conversation with someone discussing an open source voice assistant, I asked about its privacy and they blocked me. This isn't very reassuring.
Be really careful with voice assistants. As far as I know, all of them rely on sending your data to the manufacturer's server.
Open source alone won't protect you. Open source tells you what the software does, but if it does bad stuff you need to act on that information to protect yourself.
Michael
@homegrown Mycroft by default sends data through their servers to strip identifying information before forwarding the queries to services like Wolfram Alpha. If you tweak the config you can use these services yourself directly with your own API keys, skipping any connection to Mycroft.ai.
Answering certain questions is always going to require some kind of external search service.
You can also use your own STT and TTS generators with tensor acceleration.
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