Privacy Aware Voice Assistant, now for real: Mycroft, Rhasspy, and Node-Red - Part 3 (Integration)
As you see I am fascinated by voice assistants, but I don't like them sending things into the cloud. Do I really want Google, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft listen and analyze every word I say in my private four walls? How about voice assistants in an industrial setting - is it OK there to send everything to an external cloud provider? Not sure that such solutions will be easy to sell. And what happens when the Internet is down?
As excited as I initially was with Mycroft (
https://mycroft.ai), I was a little disappointed to find out that they use (their own) third party cloud service to do speech to text. However, Mycroft is open source, so it allows me to exchange this service. After discovering Rhasspy (
http://rhasspy.org,
https://github.com/rhasspy/rhasspy-voltron, a system especially focusing on offline voice assistance).
I still like Mycroft and its community a lot, so what to do?
Hey, I am a software engineer, I thought: "I can glue systems together that don't have explicit interfaces for each other". So, let's use Node-RED (
https://nodered.org) as glue!
Follow along in this mini-series. The series has 3 parts and in this third part, we will integrate Mycroft and Rhasspy with Node-RED to achieve the actually privacy aware voice assistant:
1. Installation Mycroft:
https://youtu.be/-fYOf4WBvzk2. Installation Rhasspy:
https://youtu.be/xKgPrn8ukcM3. Integration with Node-RED:
https://youtu.be/hZwv80gB8f0If you want to see the rest of the documentation with code examples, check this document here:
https://github.com/ulno/doc/blob/master/videos/2020-04-25%20Rhasspy%2C%20node-red%2C%20mycroft/part3/desc.mdI hope you enjoyed this integration exercise and let me know if you manage to integrate other skills.
Links to all projects:
- Mycroft:
https://mycroft.ai)
- Rhasspy:
http://rhasspy.org,
https://github.com/rhasspy/rhasspy-voltron- Node-RED:
https://nodered.orgAnd don't forget to check these web-sites and my own Instagram account:
- ulno's site:
https://ulno.net- ulno's Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/ulno_net/- IoTempire:
https://iotempire.netI am also now on lbry, check my channel there too:
lbry://@ulno#2
As usual, stay tuned and see you next time!
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