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* changing the wake word was a pain
* having a Home account is essentially mandatory (kind of defeating the point)
* speech synthesis was really bad
* It needed a lot of rhetorical help to get useful responses.
Just getting to that point involved several hours of fairly hardcore debugging and even then basic issues like reliable mic input still existed.
I also couldn't find reasonably priced (<$100) speakers/mics in an Alexa form factor, but it wouldn't be fair to blame that on the mycroft team.
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* changing the wake word was a pain
* having a Home account is essentially mandatory (kind of defeating the point)
* speech synthesis was really bad
* It needed a lot of rhetorical help to get useful responses.
Just getting to that point involved several hours of fairly hardcore debugging and even then basic issues like reliable mic input still existed.
I also couldn't find reasonably priced (<$100) speakers/mics in an Alexa form factor, but it wouldn't be fair to blame that on the mycroft team.