Every few weeks. Bloody #Google #Android starts nagging me with select a different input. Between #Microsoft #SwiftKey or bloddy Google #VoiceAssistant.

This is monopoly practices.

The EU should fine then their assess.
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Microsoft is following through on its promise to pull the plug on Cortana for Windows. An update rolling out now disables the app and shows a message saying Cortana in Windows is deprecated. Uninstalling it altogether requires a bit of work though. https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-deprecates-the-cortana-app-on-windows-11-devices-as-it-reaches-end-of-support/ #Cortana #CortanaForWindows #Windows #VoiceAssistant #VirtualAssistant #Microsoft

This will be me in the future 😅

#Google #GoogleHome #VoiceAssistant #HeyGoGo #Funny

https://youtu.be/e2R0NSKtVA0

I set Home Assistant voice assist as my default on my phone, I'm super impressed with the speed! There's a way to go with the sentence recognition (which I could improve myself or wait for someone smarter to do it). I'm really excited for this project, I have no doubt it'll end up in hardware form and be a fully configurable, privacy conscious voice assistant. #homeassistant #homeautomation #voice #voiceassistant #tts #android

Google Nest Mini Gutted And Rebuilt To Run Custom Agents - The Google Nest Mini is a popular smart speaker, but it’s very much a cloud-based ... - https://hackaday.com/2023/07/23/google-nest-mini-gutted-and-rebuilt-to-run-custom-agents/ #voiceassistant #googlehacks #googlenest #google

#Amazon.com and a subsidiary came to separate multi-million dollar agreements on Wednesday, the #FederalTradeCommission investigated #privacy issues involving homes using the #Ring #doorbellcamera and youngsters utilising the #voiceassistant Alexa. According to a court document filed in federal court in #Seattle, Amazon agreed to pay $25 million to settle claims that it violated #children's #privacy rights when it refused to delete #Alexa recordings at the request of...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8t_Mmu0Lwk

New Alexa on the horizon. Amazon Echo Pop

https://youtu.be/JTIO7rKxicI

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#smarthome #voiceassistant #amazon #alexa

Hackaday Prize 2023: A DIY Voice-Control Module https://hackaday.com/2023/05/15/hackaday-prize-2023-a-diy-voice-control-module/ #2023HackadayPrize #TheHackadayPrize #voicerecognition #voiceassistant #raspberrypi #MiscHacks #voice

Today is being stressful so I think I'll make #chatgpt write descriptions for my #wled #lamp (plus some random remixes of other stuff) and get it all posted on #Printables.

Alternately I could tear the #prusa hot end apart, again, and try to stop the leak, again, but I would rather just save up to replace the whole extruder.

On the automation front, #Homeassistant has gotten more talkative with the new release. I converted all the existing #google #tts to use #selfhosted #piper and now Ryan has come to work for us.

I do miss some of our original voices though. `language: en-in` was our newscaster, `en-au` told us about weather and #BigEar cat tracker reports, etc. (If you are still using google, have some fun with #tts #accents. Try sending `language: fr` with English text. We had that voice assigned to turning off lights and reminding us to close doors, and occasionally filling in when the newscaster was "out sick".)

#3dprinting #voiceassistant #homeautomation #ai

This week's new video is live and it's awesome!

What's new in Home Assistant 2023.5 including a full tutorial on how to set up Voice Assistants in Home Assistant including how to connect it to OpenAI!

Don't miss it!

👉 https://youtu.be/nh3jnPGAtMI

#homeassistant #voiceassistant

Referenced link: https://hackernoon.com/creating-and-using-a-knowledgebase-with-agents-and-bots-in-dynamics-365
Discuss on https://discu.eu/q/https://hackernoon.com/creating-and-using-a-knowledgebase-with-agents-and-bots-in-dynamics-365

Originally posted by HackerNoon | Learn Any Technology / @hackernoon: http://nitter.platypush.tech/hackernoon/status/1648672839745036288#m

Create and then make use of the extensive Knowledgebase to optimize customer experience with agents and (voice-) bots. - https://hackernoon.com/creating-and-using-a-knowledgebase-with-agents-and-bots-in-dynamics-365 #dynamics365 #voiceassistant

Upcoming German/English conference on #VoiceAssistant|s, their linguistic inclusion in everyday #practices, and the e/valuation of connected data practices. #EMCA, #privacy, #Marx, #cynicism – this conference has something for everybody.

Voice Assistants in Private Homes: Media, Data and Language in Interaction and Discourse
University of Siegen, May 8/9, 2023
https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/en/events/#tagung-sprachassistenten-im-privathaushalt-medien-und-daten-in-interaktion-und-diskurs

@sociology @linguistics

I have had two occasions where it has become clear that my Google Home is listening and acting on things that are not said to it directly:

1. Much to my confusion, I received a push notification about the weather in Ibiza. It only became clear why a week later when my wife told me she was going there with her Mum. She had been discussing it next to one of our two Google Home devices.

2. Just now, I had a meeting where the word "Glasgow" was said several times (again, next to my Google Home), along with discussing an upcoming meeting there. When I opened Google Maps after that, it opened centred on central Glasgow. I live at the other end of the UK, there's no other reason for it to do that.

Now, I understand that both of these things were "helpful" as Google's algorithms saw it. I appreciate that it's trying to help me. The problem I've got is that as far as I know Google swears it doesn't listen when not addressed directly, when it clearly absolutely does. If it does for purposes that are "good" for me, what else does it do with what it hears.

#google #googlehome #googlenest #voiceassistant #dataprivacy

For the past few days I was in the same room with someone using Bigsby and I can’t shake off a familiar feeling …

I have seen trial-and-error, frustration and general sense of would-be-easier-to-just-click-through-on-the-phone. Bonzi had better jokes too, BTW.

#VoiceAssistant #Meme

Sometimes my Google Mini decides to glitch a little, or refuses to co-operate. Like not understanding when I say "Lights on."
Times like this, I like to remind it, that it's existence is merely a matter of convenience, it is entirely superfluous to my life, and at any point it may be defenestrated with excessive force.

#SmartHome #Google #VoiceAssistant

The possibility of improving smart home control by using #AI #LanguageModels to parse #NaturalLanguage is tantalizing. Capecelatro thinks it’s the future. ”We’re trying to figure out how good we can get it in controlling your environment in a more natural and intuitive way,” he says.

A #ChatGPT-powered #SmartHome #VoiceAssistant may soon be a reality | #GenerativeAI | The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/24/23613382/chatgpt-smart-home-josh-ai-voice-assistant-demo

🚗 Pimp your #Siri by using #chatgtp an iOS shortcuts.

https://matemarschalko.medium.com/chatgpt-in-an-ios-shortcut-worlds-smartest-homekit-voice-assistant-9a33b780007a

#ios #smarthome #SmartHomeAutomation #iosShortcut #homekit #voiceassistant

A history of OpenVocie OS/OVOS
https://openvoiceos.com/a-brief-history-of-open-voice-os/

#opensource #foss #voiceassistant

Good Verge article from 2021. I use Siri a lot and it's useful, but it's frustrating that it isn't so much better.
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Hey Siri, what happened? https://www.theverge.com/22704233/siri-apple-digital-assistant-10-years-development-problems-why

#Siri #IOS #Apple #VoiceAssistant

In the wake of layoffs at both Google and Amazon in the #VoiceAssistant areas, as well as the shuttering of @mycroft_ai, this piece from Katherine Latham for the #BBC sheds light on some of the adoption challenges of this technology, including #privacy, and intrusive #notifications, as well as the "discovery problem" - different voice assistants have different capabilities and skills, and it's hard to know what's available.

Will we see #VoiceAssistants and #SmartSpeakers adopt more on-device and private capabilities, perhaps in the form of the new Home Assistant hardware? And what does a viable business model look like?

What are your thoughts on the future of #voice, #VoiceAssistants and #VirtualAssistants?

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64371426