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making an Alexa copy (sorta)

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So my girlfriend has an Alexa and really likes it but I’m not comfortable living in a house with one. How much technical knowledge would I need to make a speaker that connects to a music player app and is voice activated because that is all she uses it for.

I figure I could hook up a raspberry pi to a speaker and add a mic and voice command software that I find somewhere but I’ve never actually done anything like this before.

How feasible is this

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wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works
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Home assistant declared this year to be the year of the voice. There’s a ton of development happening to achieve this with full local control.

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hillbicks@feddit.de
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And here is hardware that works with home assistant.

https://heywillow.io/

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Pantherina@feddit.de
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Mycroft?

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EmpiricalFlock@beehaw.org
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Specifically for this application, Picroft. It sounds like it might be exactly what they’re looking for. Here is the why-use section. It would be interesting to hear from anybody currently using it.

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Not maintained since 2022…

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