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Re:Leon: Open-source, self-hosted personal assistant by GekkePrutser on Sunday September 04, 2022 @07:27PM (#32718786)
I don't know how well Leon works but Mycroft is not running locally on your own server. It's still a cloud service. I believe it can be run locally but it's very complex and not well supported. At least this was the state last time I looked at it.

For this reason (and their failed Kickstarter) I've never really been into Mycroft. After all it's kinda the same as Alexa/Siri just a slightly more trustworthy party when they say they're not using your data.

I'm just not interested in alternatives until they can run fully locally (not necessarily on device, on a local server or docker is fine)

If this Leon does what it says on the tin it might be just the thing for me.

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Re:Leon: Open-source, self-hosted personal assistant by vorpalhex on Sunday September 04, 2022 @07:32PM (#32718810)
Mycroft does run on your own server.

It allows you to use the Google text to speech API for more natural voices, which is a cloud product.

It is a yaml config to use on device tts instead.

Install is flashing an sd card.

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Re:Leon: Open-source, self-hosted personal assistant by GekkePrutser on Monday September 05, 2022 @06:15AM (#32722581)
I thought the detection engine was too complex and not fully open? I remember them looking at Mozilla DeepSpeech or something but that being one of those never ending projects.

I was asking about self hosting on their forum and they were like "just use our hosted service, you can trust us". That's not different enough from Apple/Amazon/Google/Microsoft so I dropped it.

But like I said this was a few years ago. Never looked again since.

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Re:Leon: Open-source, self-hosted personal assistant by Louistiti on Monday September 05, 2022 @12:26AM (#32720509)
Leon can fully run on your own device, it includes the NLP, STT, TTS and so on. More offline STT/TTS solutions are coming up though.
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