Smart Home voice assistants (also known as "smart home", "connected home") are still very much on vogue. But, regarding to Gartner's hype cycle for emerging technologies, it's already on the falling edge of the curve and on the road to its plateau of productivity. Which means: the hype is almost over and the technology will get mature in approximately less than five years.
Controlling devices at home with the voice is no future any more. It is presence. While Amazon's Alexa and Google Smart Home already recognize your wishes by voice commands in the cloud, there is a small place, where some offline voice assistants have emerged. These can process voice commands without a connection to the Internet, which is a major advantage for your private sphere - especially, if you consider that e.g. the German Home Office plans to listen to such devices to enlighten crimes.
Fortunately, there is a way to protect your private sphere though you want to use smart home assistants: Snips.ai. Snips provides an assistant, that will be trained in the cloud but can analyze your commands offline and execute them. Basis for the technology can be a Raspberry Pi 3. Of course, I started experimenting with the software and my raspi ...
If you are also interested in developing with snips to control your home and protect your private sphere, feel free to join the community. Here are some interesting links:
Controlling devices at home with the voice is no future any more. It is presence. While Amazon's Alexa and Google Smart Home already recognize your wishes by voice commands in the cloud, there is a small place, where some offline voice assistants have emerged. These can process voice commands without a connection to the Internet, which is a major advantage for your private sphere - especially, if you consider that e.g. the German Home Office plans to listen to such devices to enlighten crimes.
Fortunately, there is a way to protect your private sphere though you want to use smart home assistants: Snips.ai. Snips provides an assistant, that will be trained in the cloud but can analyze your commands offline and execute them. Basis for the technology can be a Raspberry Pi 3. Of course, I started experimenting with the software and my raspi ...
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AI Methods Used for Smart Home
- Audio recognition
- Speech recognition
- Speech identification
- Language understanding
- Language generation
Insights
The first thing I discovered was, that many people had the same idea of creating an assistant that listens to the hotword "Jarvis". 😄 The next insight was, that there's already a community for snips, and developing snips applications (called "skills") could be very easy. Finally, I discovered, that the easiest way of developing skills for Snips is Python ...If you are also interested in developing with snips to control your home and protect your private sphere, feel free to join the community. Here are some interesting links:
Hints:
- Unfortunately, the web app of Snips.ai only works proper in a Chrome or Chromium browser (22.06.2019)
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