Almond: An Open, Privacy-Preserving Virtual Assistant

Re:Almond: An Open, Privacy-Preserving Virtual Assistant by z3t4 on Friday November 29, 2019 @08:03AM (#21664087)

Too bad Chrome stopped supporting the web speech-to-text API. But I guess it overwhelmed Google's network/servers!? I remember back in Windows XP? There was speech recognition, where you first had to read a bunch of text in order to train it. It didn't use a online service afaik. And it was decent. With today's hardware it should be possible to do speech to text on the client! eg. without sending the audio to the cloud for processing!

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Re:Almond: An Open, Privacy-Preserving Virtual Assistant by rezonant on Friday November 29, 2019 @03:24PM (#21666615)

Web speech to text is still available on Chrome... https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/demos/speech.html

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Re:Almond: An Open, Privacy-Preserving Virtual Assistant by z3t4 on Friday November 29, 2019 @05:03PM (#21667096)

I get a cryptic error message that just says "network", others seem to have the same problem. Does it work for you??

Here's another demo that shows the error message at the bottom: https://mdn.github.io/web-speech-api/speech-color-changer/

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Re:Almond: An Open, Privacy-Preserving Virtual Assistant by janimo on Friday November 29, 2019 @12:42PM (#21665732)

When did Chrome stop supporting web speech to text?

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Re:Almond: An Open, Privacy-Preserving Virtual Assistant by z3t4 on Saturday November 30, 2019 @12:21PM (#21670986)

It worked for me until recently. So a few months back... for android apps you need an app key, but there is no way to do that for a web app afaik, maybe if you used the google api instead of the standard web api. But i prefer platform independency and privacy over quality.

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