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The goal of the blog post isn't to show off. It's to express what matters.

Thanks for saying. I have some ideas in mind, like creating some courses specific to Leon. In the meantime, it is possible to support via GitHub Sponsors: http://sponsor.getleon.ai

Thanks.

No mega corp, I'm just a passionate guy who spend my free time to work on Leon. Is there anything wrong with that?

How can I improve it?

At the moment, the main focus in on the core.

"Once the official release shipped, the big focus will be to build many skills along with the community and cover most of the basic cases and beyond of existing closed source assistants"

You can find more here: https://blog.getleon.ai/a-much-better-nlp-and-future-1-0-0-b... and there: https://blog.getleon.ai/a-much-better-nlp-and-future-1-0-0-b...

Well, I just think it is fun.

Where is the lie here? You are free to pick voice solutions, and the default ones are the ones that run offline. Your call.

You can choose what voice solutions you want to use. So you can choose the ones that run offline (which are the default ones).

Leon was using Mozilla DeepSpeech before. But then we moved to Coqui STT instead.

Yes Vosk will definitely be part of Leon when the focus will be on implementing new voice solutions.

Please do know that new offline TTS/STT solutions are coming up.

https://trello.com/c/lEZG0VYS/259-%E2%9C%A8-100-implement-ne... and https://trello.com/c/nxEstkvo/260-%E2%9C%A8-100-implement-ne...

Does it sound good thought? In the future I may allow the hotword customization. And a female version may arrive too.

Thank you! I try to express some thoughts by paying attention to the visual aspect of Leon.

Yes it is possible to create skills actions based on the core. It is the main strength of Leon. For the sharing part, I will develop a platform to centralize skills so it will be easy to share skills with the community. A bit similar as the npm registry.

Yes. I still did not figured out how exactly, any thought?

Definitely. We can think of connecting such basic skills with more advanced skills too. The fact that Leon has a modular architecture makes it very flexible. We just need to let our imagination drives us.

I have some skills idea for Leon after the official release. The idea is to centralize all of them into your own hardware that you control. Then Leon can be seen as a "second brain".

Let's say we build a budget tracker, then we can ask Leon "How much did I spend last month in groceries?". Mini apps are coming up on Leon, feel free to read the latest blog post, I'm sharing some thoughts on it.

We can also think of a tracker skill where Leon can understand your location habits. Like if you spend 10+ minutes at a specific place, then you can flag it as "gym". Then when you go to this place again, Leon will trigger a counter and count the time you are at the gym. The next week you can ask "Leon, how long time did I spend at the gym last week?". It can be gym, office, or anything you could think of.

Such use cases will be possible to make after the official release and the mobile client.

Jasper can be considered as his dad.

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.

I started to build Leon in late 2017 on my free time. There is no big organization behind Leon AI, just me and more with the community later.

At the moment the whole core is being rewritten, many new features are coming up. Please do know that the main strength of Leon is about the core and not the skills yet. Once the official release shipped, with the community we will all focus on building new skills by extending from the core and let Leon makes meaningful things. Among the upcoming things, new offline STT/TTS solutions will take place.

It's going to take some time to build a respectable personal assistant that respects our privacy, but we are getting there.

If you have any question or just wanna chat, feel free to join us on Discord.

Yes it is. Thanks for pointing that out.

If you consider a "promotional content" as a blog post talking about a developer story that includes sharing creativity and experience that may help others who create their open-source project, then yes, please stay clear.