iamsrp

> robotaxis are still almost here, just around the corner, as always.

You can walk to where they're waiting for you.

No.

Another toy project. Happy Thanksgiving for them as having it.

I wrote a toy one which works well enough for me:

  https://github.com/iamsrp/dexter

It'll run on a cheap Ubuntu box if you can't get a Pi.

And lots of people seem to like Rhasspy too:

  https://github.com/rhasspy/rhasspy

which does rather look more polished than my efforts (though I've not tried it myself).

Simple weather service added:

  https://github.com/iamsrp/dexter/blob/master/service/weather.py

Feel free to hack on it, if you're still game.

Still active but rather sporadic. (Time is very much at a premium these days alas.)

I never quite got around to doing a weather module but, if you fancy trying to put one together, it should not be too hard by cargo-culting from the other services. If things are confusing then open a problem request and I will look to make them less so.

Side-threads like this are why I read HN.

FWIW the thread about my cheap & cheerful effort from a while back:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25718392

Nice to see all the other efforts. There are a decent bunch now. Go, as they say, team :)

I switched to the Zenfone series (around 6 or 7) after the HTC ones died a death. I like that they have an SD card and dual SIM. Happy with the Android version too; it's been fine from my perspective. I found them reliable and will probably upgrade my 8 flip at some point soon for this one (or a flip version), if only to try to vote with my wallet to keep Asus making more; we need more competition in the phone space.

I could shill more but that's probably enough for one evening.

Haha, very fair! Hoisted by my own leotard...

Maybe an English degree would be a good complimentary one?

"To whom..."

Sorry. Couldn't resist...

I was agreeing right up until "XML" :)

Yes and yes.

I added a "Related work" section to the README. It's a tad vacuous since, really, these things are all pretty similar. Dexter can do things with swirly lights though. Swirly lights are cool.

Dexter has a couple of different input systems: PocketSphinx and DeepSpeech.

PocketSphinx seems to have better language coverage but lower accuracy than DeepSpeech, which only has English and Mandarin Chinese.

DeepSpeech was not great about 2 years ago when I first started Dexter and, being a Brit, I had to fake an (awful) American accent to make it work. It's come on well in that time though; I can use my own voice now, which is a relief to those near by. No clue how good its Mandarin recognition is however.

Other folks in surrounding threads have flagged Kaldi which I'll try to take a look at as well (though it also looks to be only English and Mandarin too).

It was mainly a toy project for me; a bone to chew on if you will. I wanted something which I could mess with easily myself and which was heavily pluggable.

Integrating it with various external peripherals should be easy and it's designed to run completely on its own (i.e. no cloud for a lot of things).

It's actually a pun: Dexter, as in the Latin for "right", as in your right hand. Bad I know.

Neat! This also looks a little related to a (very much) toy project of mine (https://github.com/iamsrp/dexter). I might try to look to see if I can hook them together..!