@mpjgregoire

yes I've used #OpenVoiceOS on my Mycroft 2 although I'm now using #NeonAI which
makes use of #Ovos .. I'd say it's fine and interesting, if a bit experimental.

https://neon.ai/NeonAIforMycroftMarkII/

#openvoiceos #neonai #Mycroftai #ovos

@popey @testman Of course, best is a subjective measure so it really depends on your goal. I lean towards #NeonAI as it's more full featured than #OVOS, but YMMV. #HomeAssistant has also made huge strides in the voice arena, and continue to work on it. You can turn an ESP32-S3-Box-3 into a marginally capable assistant if your only goal is to control your smart home. If you want to ask it questions about the weather or actors/politicians then no. Not yet.

@RTheren @popey Mycroft itself is pretty much toast. There were two forks of it which are both doing well as far as I can see. #NeonAI and #OVOS. Pretty much everybody who develops for OVOS used to work for Mycroft or NeonAI at some point. I run NeonAI on my Mark II. It's stand alone and operates entirely locally. NeonAI actually still sells the Mark II if you're interested in getting one. They will set you back a pretty penny on price.

https://www.neon.ai/ComparingNeon-OVos-Mycroft

Oh, I really want to build one of these! If I put a Pi4 or Pi5 into it and ran a local copy of #NeonAI or #OVOS and maybe controlled the servos directly from the Pi instead of running it through an extra #Arduino, it would be a lot more capable and compact. Or, I could run it through a Pi0 with a #HomeAssistant assistant setup to offload the hardware requirements. So much potential!! Maybe when I'm done with my class and have more time to tinker around?

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=uZ-sa-u8rIE

#TeddyRuxpin

@chadmccullough The projects/people I personally support:

#Slackware
#Mastodon
#LateNightLinux
#PhysicsGirl
@dansup
#NeonAI
#OVOS
#HomeAssistant

and of course #Fosstodon.

This is one of the reasons I've been a big supporter of #Mycroft in the past, and I'm still supporting #OVOS and #NeonAI. I think a voice driven UI (VUI) is important, but the biggest players in that market are Google and Amazon, and their motivation isn't improving the experience for the people using their devices, it's monetizing anything and everything they can. I'd love to see a new smart speaker (*cough* @PINE64 *cough*) that would support OVOS or NeonAI soon.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/amazon-wants-to-charge-a-subscription-fee-for-alexa-eventually/

@ggiesen Agreed. Home Assistant integration is a big part of why I wanted one too. I only lost one to Mycroft going under, but still grates. That being said, Neon and OVOS are still developing and #HomeAssistant is really pushing on their "Year of the Voice". I'm hoping that the updates HA makes with the #YearOfTheVoice will make things easier assistants like #NeonAI to integrate. I could be completely wrong about that, but it seems like having some of this stuff built in will ease the load.

Got the new version of #NeonAI installed on my #Mark2. Neon is just a touch too heavy for the hardware in the Mark2. I've heard you can upgrade the Pi to a model with more RAM and supposedly that makes a huge difference. If you can get a Pi. I'm hoping when they get around to a Pi 5 :raspberrypi: it'll keep close enough to the same form factor that it can be dropped into the Mark2. It would be really nice to give it a bit more oomph.

Ooo, just got notified that the new #NeonAI Version 2.0 is available for my #Mycroft #Mark2 That's super exciting. I can't wait to try it out!

https://neon.ai/UpgradeGuideV2.0

@homeassistant Hopefully you guys can succeed where @mycroft_ai didn't (I'm still waiting on my Mycroft unit). Have you guys considered teaming up with #NeonAI or @ovos?

This is an interesting development from #RaspberryPi. From the sounds of things I don't think it's going to have any impact on availability of the current crop of SBCs. The focus on AI could point to a Pi5 with potentially specialized processors for artificial intelligence? If so, that could be a boon for projects I'm constantly shilling for, like #NeonAI. Fingers crossed!

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/12/sony-backs-raspberry-pi-with-fresh-funding-access-to-ai-chips.html

Singularly failing at my "unpack first" policy. So far I've opened the mail and done laundry - which led to setting up the Chromecast Audio and currently working on setting up the #mycroft with #neonai...