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I'd love to find a selfhosted voice assistant to use on my phone, computer, etc. iOS compatibility is a plus. Does anyone know of anything out there that could fit the bill?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Mycroft is the closest thing I can think off.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I didn't see anything about legal battles in that link.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They have been sued out of existence by patent trolls ☹️

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Do you have more information? I would like to know the story.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

☹️ Mycroft ran out of money and closed down. I think you can still order a Mark2, but the cloud components they were hosting were taken down which essentially breaks the software. There is another company that picked up the ball and took over support but it's a more limited experience at the moment and the whole ecosystem is in a bit of a rut. The OpenVoiceOS project that spun out of Mycroft looks like the best bet long-term but they haven't finished a stable release yet. I bought a Mark2, which I still think is the best hardware available for an open source voice assistant, but finding and stitching together the software to make it work is a chore atm.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

OVOS & Neon are MyCroft's successor. They work well, and can even plug into LLMs