I feel like this could be an opportunity for a more open option. Both Google and Amazon have seemingly lost some of their focus on this market because it turns out people aren't just going to ask their voice assistant to buy them something and trust that it's just all going to work out. An open option like #Neon or #OVOS could step in and cover the basic functions. Unfortunately with the demise of #Mycroft, there's no hardware to run it on other than PCs or the #Mark2.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3703729/whats-going-on-with-google-assistant.html

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A new release of the #Mycroft software is now available. If you own a Mark 2 and you haven't moved to #OVOS or #NeonOS, you should probably update sooner rather than later.

* Add STT fallback to communicate directly with a free demo Google STT service.

* Add config switch that allows Mycroft to start up without valid pairing information.

* Add direct call to Weather API as fallback mechanism.

They're removing dependence on their backend, which is good. No idea how much longer it'll be there.