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Re:Amazon’s Echo Brims with Groundbreaking Promise by jonahx on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @11:16AM (#11253777)
The single funniest post I've ever read on HN was this response to the original Echo promo video:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8569219

Original promo video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkOCeAtKHIc

That aside, I like the idea of the Echo, just not the idea of giving Amazon permanent eavesdropping rights in my home. Any home automation enthusiasts know if there's open source software that provides similar services, but which I could run myself?

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Re:Amazon’s Echo Brims with Groundbreaking Promise by gnulnx on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @02:56PM (#11255348)
Short answer: no. Long anwer: You can cobble something together, using either https://wit.ai (sending your voice to the cloud) or CMU Sphinx a.k.a. PocketSphinx (https://wolfpaulus.com/journal/embedded/raspberrypi2-sr/) (keeping it all in-house)
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Re:Amazon’s Echo Brims with Groundbreaking Promise by arunpn123 on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @08:57PM (#11256984)
I built something like this at home. CMU Sphinx is a popular open source speech recognition toolkit that you can run locally. But it was kind of clumsy to setup and train. Also, I couldn't get high accuracy.

Other cloud options include Google Voice and wit.ai. Google Voice AFAIK doesn't allow you to train it with custom models. I finally went with wit.ai which turned out to be pretty good.

Blog post with code and schematics describing my setup: http://arunpn.com/projects/voice-activated-light-switch/

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Re:Amazon’s Echo Brims with Groundbreaking Promise by ars on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @03:13PM (#11255451)
That post reminds me very much of the story "The Twonky" by Lewis Padgett.

http://my.fit.edu/~rosiene/twonky.pdf

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