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The FOSS-only crowd might flame me for this, but I’d argue this type of scenario is a legit use-case for voice assistants, because “remind me to buy ________” is a fairly easy habit to get into and it’s a single step, fast enough to beat the attention bounce.
Edit: I meant no offense. Reworded to “FOSS-only.”
It absolutely would be a good thing for a voice assistant.
But most kickback against voice assistants isn't the lack of use case, it's all the other bullshit you have to accept alongside it.
If I could install a voice assistant that didn't require a constant internet connection and could work alongside other services, I'd use it.
I think there's one on F-droid? Starts with a D. I'm sorry I just woke up and can't find it.
Edit: its Dicio, oof tho it doesn't look offline but it does tick the rest of the boxes.
HomeAssistant has seen a bit of a revolution around the concept of voice assistants.
Heard some buzz and have been meaning to read up. The speech service has been the primary puzzle piece binding me to proprietary systems, but if it’s time it’s time.
You can build your own on a Raspberry Pi or similar PC
https://github.com/OpenVoiceOS
Can indeed work offline, but only the basic stuff
I've tried voice assistants, won't be viable until there's at least half a million autistic linux users who iron out all the kinks for a self hosted service.
I bet some FOSS voice recognition projects have matured since last I checked, but the closest I had sketched out in the past required external calls to the local speech kit api on macOS or iOS. We’ll get there. It’s too useful to let big tech have a monopoly on it.
We did that for years, until the products we bought switched APIs making us have to change shopping list apps a couple times, then shut off the feature altogether.
Any tech that requires an outside server eventually gets shut off and you spend my more time managing it than you saved in the long run.
Just toss the shampoo bottle on the floor to remind yourself.
Yes, that is a legitimate use case for that technology.
I do not consider myself anti-tech by any stretch of the imagination (I can put my hands on no less than five computers from where I'm sitting) and I want things like voice assistants and smart houses and whatnot for the benefits they can provide, but we've got to pry the invasive corporate bullshit out first.