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minus-squareDamage@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·10 months agoAs long as processing is offloaded to the cloud, something’s gotta pay for it, either a subscription or your personal data. Problem is, I don’t trust Amazon to not double dip, so fuck 'em. We need offline personal assistants, support Home Assistant.
minus-squareAltima NEO@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 months agoI mean I thought the whole point of Alexa was to make you buy more stuff from Amazon?
minus-squareⲇⲅⲇ@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 months agoExactly, the problem is that even if you pay for the subscription, they will still use your data for their profit. Big companies are so abusive…
minus-squareprogandy@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoFor speech recognition there is also heywillow.io
As long as processing is offloaded to the cloud, something’s gotta pay for it, either a subscription or your personal data.
Problem is, I don’t trust Amazon to not double dip, so fuck 'em.
We need offline personal assistants, support Home Assistant.
I mean I thought the whole point of Alexa was to make you buy more stuff from Amazon?
Exactly, the problem is that even if you pay for the subscription, they will still use your data for their profit. Big companies are so abusive…
For speech recognition there is also heywillow.io