Comment on Amazon Alexa showing just how much they have embraced enshittification

• Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It does all the basics. Can play music via jellyfin, spotify or any of the supported Music Assistant sources (preferably plug in better speakers). Can set timers. I have it announce various reminders (put the recycling/rubbish bin out, etc).

  One thing it can do that I don’t think other smart speakers can is proactive things. When the room gets cold, I have it say “It’s getting cold in here, would you like to turn on the heating?”, then it listens for a response and you can reply yes/no.

  I’ve also been playing with connecting it with frigate events, such as “I can see Grandma on the doorbell camera”, or “I can see your Ariya on the driveway camera”.

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  • Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Thats cool. Maybe my experience has been tainted by the fact that I run piper/whisper on the server’s cpu, and by consequence, it’s slow as fuck.

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    • Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Oh I’m using Home Assistant Cloud as I worked out day 1 there’s no chance of it recognising my voice. I would like to switch to local processing when it gets good enough though.

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      • Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Maybe I should do it too. I mean, it’s 10€ a month, right? What other goodies does it offer?

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