Project Alice can do all that, other non spying assistants too, offline, we have conversion skills, and if not, it's really simple to create, still doesn't require online connectivity
These are so basic operations that it cannot be true that an online Alexa or Google Home assistant is better than alts.... If you talk about getting informations, routes and others, maybe, but for a simple alarm or a timer, who would require online connectivity....
Yeah, that's what I said, "as for the wakewords" we listen all the time, looking for a specific wave pattern in the audio and not for words. But the audio is literally always flowing in, on all your satellites and the main unit. The problem with prewarming is that more than analysing a wave pattern in the audio stream, we need to keep a much longer audio data dump in memory in some kind of a FIFO pool. don't take me wrong, it's easily doable, just haven't taken the time to do something polished and not overconsuming for the device running it. Technically, we just need to pool the audio data, say 3-5 seconds depending on hardware used (pi 3 is slow), trim the begining of the length of the wakeword detected length and append the rest of the incoming data while already streaming to ASR, be it local oor cloud based
Because you can use whatever FontAwesome (for which I'm an early backer) icon when you are creating a skill for Alice using our backend skill creator on her browser interface. We could exclude the use of fa-brands.
Thank you for the correct analysis of my thoughts at the moment I started Project Alice :-) Often people will think that Alice and the Red Queen is an easy mix and a wrong shortcut to Resident Evil. But indeed, the Red Queen, in the MOVIES, is at the image of Alicia. When RE last part came out, I wanted to include the white queen in Project Alice' mood, but that's not done yet
This is entirely true and I have a few solution I could deploy with some work, the problem is a caching like this consumes power, as you literally listen all the time, as for a wakeword, to cache the audio data in memory and use it ONLY if a wakeword is detected. Now big companies do it in the cloud, we could do it locally, as an option. The path I chose to mitigate that unatural feeling is to use a human answer, bit like at home, you in the kitchen, wife or kids further away, not communicating. At some point you'd call your wife "Alice?" and you'd wait for her to reply for a "yes?" before talking as you are unaware if she's focused on you at the moment or playing with the kids whatever
