[HN Gopher] Dicio: Free and open source voice assistant for Android
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Dicio: Free and open source voice assistant for Android
 
Author : commoner
Score  : 29 points
Date   : 2022-01-01 20:43 UTC (2 hours ago)
 
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| dddw wrote:
| Wow normally I find this stuff on HN first, but I installed it
| just hours before this post finding it on fdroid. An open source
| voice assitant is very welcome imho. If it can match the old
| blackberry bbos10 voice assitant in usability, I'd be very
| gratefull. My first impression was that the speech to text was
| allright, but the interpretation of that is kinda spotty still.
 
| betwixthewires wrote:
| I don't see text messages/calling in the skills/features list, or
| using any other messaging apps. Are there any particular plans to
| build skills for these sorts of applications?
| 
| Also, doe sit use whichever speech engine you have installed for
| tts? I'm interested in using this primarily because I only use
| FOSS and up until now I've been going without a voice assistant,
| but I do use flite tts.
 
  | david_allison wrote:
  | Apparently uses Vosk for TTS.
  | 
  | Looks like it's welcoming of external contributors, a PR is in
  | for telephone functionality. You could very likely get the
  | functionality that you need included.
  | 
  | https://github.com/Stypox/dicio-android
 
| commoner wrote:
| Newly added to F-Droid:
| https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.dicio.dicio_android/
| 
| To choose Dicio as your default digital assistant on Android
| (replacing Google Assistant), go to Settings > Apps &
| notifications > Default apps > Digital assistant app > Default
| digital assistant app. On Android 10+, this lets you activate
| Dicio by swiping from the bottom left/right corner toward the
| center of the screen.
 
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