Ask HN: What is an open-source alternative to Google Home?

50 点作者 holaboyperu大约 9 年前

I'm wondering what type of technology can be used to build something like Google Home without the privacy concerns from Google or the government listening.

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swalsh大约 9 年前

I'm not sure what it's going to be, but I know we're on the verge of another "Microsoft vs Linux" moment. This is going to be a major OS that almost all people will have in their homes (my echo is older than my son, he is growing up just expecting to be able to ask a computer to do what he wants). Bots will be as natural to him as mobile phones are to Generation Z, and the internet is to Millenials.Right now it seems the proprietary systems are winning the race, which makes sense. Financial incentives are strong... but I firmly believe an open source alternative is better (from a purely capitalistic point of view, I personally compete against amazon... and the further we move from desktops the harder that is).So, if someone asks for funding, and has a good background, i'll throw a few bucks towards them.

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colinramsay大约 9 年前

There's a project called Jasper [1] that can use a variety of different speech-to-text backends and allows you to write plugins to process commands.For me the biggest issue is actually capturing audio. Something like Google Home or Amazon Echo will have one or more very good microphones in and trying to source those separately ends up being surprisingly expensive.<a href="https://jasperproject.github.io/" rel="nofollow">https://jasperproject.github.io/</a>

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jbob2000大约 9 年前

Well, I guess my question to you is, what would this thing do without Google?If you ask it for directions, are you going to build your own mapping engine or just use google maps or another third party solution?If you ask for the latest basketball news, are you going to search google or are you going to build your own web crawler?If you ask it to play your favourite song, where will it play the music from? A local hard disk? A service like spotify, apple music, or youtube?Without Google (or Amazon, if it's the echo), you don't really have much except a voice-to-text box if you want to exclude their services.

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hiddencost大约 9 年前

Well, depends on what you want to do. Good far field speech recognition requires on the order of 10k hours of training data to build a good acoustic model for large vocabulary problems. And it needs to be recorded with the same mic set up as you expect at run time.I am continually frustrated by people that think speech recognition is a software problem.

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nathan_f77大约 9 年前

It's really not the same thing, but I've just installed Home Assistant [1], and have been playing around with it today. It automatically picked up my Hue lights and Chromecasts, and I set up presence detection with Locative.For voice recognition, it's just not worth trying to do something yourself. I'm still going to get an Amazon Echo, or maybe the Google Home when it comes out.[1]: <a href="https://home-assistant.io/" rel="nofollow">https://home-assistant.io/</a>

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superice大约 9 年前

Disclaimer: I'm a software engineer at Athom.We at Athom, a smart home startup based in the Netherlands, are releasing the Homey very soon. It features an open app platform based on NodeJS, has support for Z-Wave, 868MHz, 433MHz, Zigbee, IR, WiFi and Bluetooth, not to mention it has some pretty decent voice recognition as well. It isn't strictly speaking open source as the core of our software is proprietary, but we're trying to contribute back to the community on every piece of open source software we do use. We've opened pull requests on various NodeJS projects, we have someone actively working on Linux kernel development (primarily drivers), and every protocol we add support for is open sourced on our GitHub account. We maintain the node-nfc npm module, and are contributors to a handful of other projects. We're about the closest you can come right now to a functioning smart home hub incorporating lots of open source elements, while still having the advantages of corporate backing.Feel free to browse around on our website (<a href="http://athom.com/" rel="nofollow">http://athom.com/</a>) or on our GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/athombv" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/athombv</a>

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bbthorson大约 9 年前

I would check out www.silklabs.com, they had a pretty successful kickstarter campaign for their device and just open sourced their platform.Former Mozilla people I believe.

drivingmenuts大约 9 年前

Problem solved: a dimmer switch.I look at stuff like Google home and wonder what problem they're trying to solve and if they've actually made it disappear or just hidden it behind a wall of ever more complicated marketing.None of it particularly scares me, but the older I get, I think things need to get simpler and a voice-activated, centralized home control system isn't it. Especially when I'm 80 and have enough problems figuring out where my cats hid my glasses (I expect they'll probably have hidden them on my head - sneaky bastards).Literally, the only product of the past decade that I can think of that nailed it was Nest. They decided to replace the thermostat and so they replaced the thermostat. Sure, it ties into your phone and whatnot, but the brains are in the little box you hang on the wall and you don't need the extra connectivity.IoT sounds great, but, yeah. Light switch is simpler.YMMV

nameless912大约 9 年前

I was actually thinking about writing one meself. My plan looked something like this:Raspberry Pi with a python script running that does microphone->speech recognition (I was going to use Google's dictation service, but you could do it however you want)->voice-API.The voice API will look something like a regular old REST API does, but for humans: it'll have a bunch of trigger words that would emulate API endpoints (e.g. "play" for music, "turn the lights" for light control, etc.) with the rest of the query being fed as the parameters. And anything that is unrecognized would be assumed to be a question and passed to WolframAlpha or something similar.Has anyone tried something along these lines?

ocdtrekkie大约 9 年前

The biggest things right now that I haven't found good replacements for outside of the walled gardens:- The sort of whole room audio microphone setup found in Amazon Echo and Google Home.- Really solid Google-grade speech recognition and hotword detection.- Search.

umeboshi大约 9 年前

Mycroft.ai

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d135_1r43大约 9 年前

I think a combination of a Raspberry Pi and <a href="http://jasperproject.github.io/documentation/" rel="nofollow">http://jasperproject.github.io/documentation/</a> might be a good start.

miket大约 9 年前

Check out <a href="http://sirius.clarity-lab.org/" rel="nofollow">http://sirius.clarity-lab.org/</a>

markshuttle大约 9 年前

Mycroft just open sourced their framework. They are using snaps on Ubuntu Core to make an open home voice gateway.