The three biggest players in voice assistants –– Google, Apple and Amazon –– have radically different approaches to profiling users, Northeastern University researchers say.

  • JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    Yeah, just having a microphone in the house with some predefined voice controls which you can go and change gives you all of the benefits of a Google home with none of the Google bullshit.

    Especially now with LLMs getting so big, just go set up voice-to-text ollama session with predefined prompts and responses

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      3 minutes ago

      That handles automation, but can’t freestyle questions.

      “Hey Google, convert (metric) to (Imperial).”

      “Hey Google, weather today?”

      “Hey Google, what’s the capital of Kakistan?”

      I have a ceiling-mounted mini in almost every room and just toss questions around while I work or play. Or, just ask it to play music. (Which went to shit when I cancelled Spotify.)