• CoderKat@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    I badly wish that I could get (competent) home assistants with at least somewhat customizable activation keywords. I understand why it’s not customizable. They build it into the hardware so that it doesn’t have to be truly listening all the time. But I’d love at least some options to buy versions that have different phrases.

    For me, I just want something that references some pop culture AI (eg, HAL, Glados, etc). I especially don’t like Google’s approach of saying the freaking company name.

    • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.ml
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      11 months ago

      There are locally hosted (not connected to internet) home assistants. They take more setup but are a lot more customizable, especially the open source ones.

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      11 months ago

      With Home Assistant you can do custom wake words. Can also do wake words to talk to chatgpt or different languages. Does take some configuration

    • Madeline@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      11 months ago

      google is completely capable of adding custom wake words, they already have a feature that lets you set up custom words that skip the “hey google” so you can just say something like “lights on” and it activates a routine that does that.