It's indeed suspicious. You're sending your voice samples, your various services accounts, your location and more private data to some proprietary black box in some public cloud. Sorry, but this is a privacy nightmare. It should be open source and self-hosted like Mycroft (https://mycroft.ai) or Leon (https://getleon.ai) to be trustworthy. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

I was expecting this to be about Mycroft the AI assistant ( https://mycroft.ai/ ). - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

But I would recommend writing some proper glue logic in Python and use the socket function for communication. But if you really want to get rid of Alexa, it's probably worth it to set up mycroft.ai or another open source assistant. Source: 12 months ago

Https://mycroft.ai/ is a sophisticated open source replacement for Siri/Alexa … you can buy their premade hardware version for $399. Source: about 1 year ago

To add home automation, consider something like Mycroft (https://mycroft.ai/). Source: about 1 year ago

I've used wren and cotap and to the best of my knowledge they are reliable. I recently switched to wren, but I'm not sure what the best one is. I'm hoping the number of reputable ones will grow as demand increases. Source: over 1 year ago

Offset your own personal carbon footprint each year (~$240/year). I like https://cotap.org/ for my yearly carbon offsets. Source: over 2 years ago