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Re:Is Anyone Listening to You on Alexa? A Global Team Review... by prophesi on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @11:03PM (#19630811)
What's your metric? And are these offline assistants smartphone apps? NLP is expensive computing, so it'd make sense for those to do poorly. And this doesn't even have to strictly be offline; You can have your data processed online in a privacy-respecting way, so long as you actually know what's going on under the hood and have control over the data.

My shill is MyCroft[0]. They're partnered with Mozilla to develop an open source NLP engine[1], so I have high hopes for it.

[0] https://mycroft.ai/

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech

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Re:Is Anyone Listening to You on Alexa? A Global Team Review... by comex on Thursday April 11, 2019 @01:58AM (#19631537)
It does look promising, but it also seems like it has yet to get to the point of working "just about as well as Alexa/Echo/etc." – which means it's an open question whether it will be able to.
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