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making an Alexa copy (sorta)

So my girlfriend has an Alexa and really likes it but I'm not comfortable living in a house with one. How much technical knowledge would I need to make a speaker that connects to a music player app and is voice activated because that is all she uses it for.

I figure I could hook up a raspberry pi to a speaker and add a mic and voice command software that I find somewhere but I've never actually done anything like this before.

How feasible is this

Pantherina ,

Mycroft?

EmpiricalFlock ,
@EmpiricalFlock@beehaw.org avatar

Specifically for this application, Picroft. It sounds like it might be exactly what they're looking for. Here is the why-use section. It would be interesting to hear from anybody currently using it.

kby ,

If you are not in the mood for doing much tinkering, there is a German electronics manufacturer called TechniSat and they sell a multi-function radio called DIGITRADIO 3 VOICE. It has an offline voice assistant. The voice commands can be used to pause, change audio source, increase volume, etc. The radio deck has okay-ish sound, I wouldn’t call it hi-fi but it doesn’t sound like two tin cans. The function is actually for blind people (I bought one for my grandma who is legally blind), but I guess privacy enthusiasts would find it adequate, too.

Devjavu ,

Good thing she isn't illegally blind :D. Yeah I'll show myself the door.

wildbus8979 ,

Home assistant declared this year to be the year of the voice. There's a ton of development happening to achieve this with full local control.

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