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  1. @mpjgregoire

    yes I've used #OpenVoiceOS on my Mycroft 2 although I'm now using #NeonAI which
    makes use of #Ovos .. I'd say it's fine and interesting, if a bit experimental.

    neon.ai/NeonAIforMycroftMarkII

    #openvoiceos #neonai #Mycroftai #ovos

  2. @popey @testman Of course, best is a subjective measure so it really depends on your goal. I lean towards as it's more full featured than , but YMMV. has also made huge strides in the voice arena, and continue to work on it. You can turn an ESP32-S3-Box-3 into a marginally capable assistant if your only goal is to control your smart home. If you want to ask it questions about the weather or actors/politicians then no. Not yet.

  3. @RTheren @popey Mycroft itself is pretty much toast. There were two forks of it which are both doing well as far as I can see. and . Pretty much everybody who develops for OVOS used to work for Mycroft or NeonAI at some point. I run NeonAI on my Mark II. It's stand alone and operates entirely locally. NeonAI actually still sells the Mark II if you're interested in getting one. They will set you back a pretty penny on price.

    neon.ai/ComparingNeon-OVos-Myc

  4. Oh, I really want to build one of these! If I put a Pi4 or Pi5 into it and ran a local copy of or and maybe controlled the servos directly from the Pi instead of running it through an extra , it would be a lot more capable and compact. Or, I could run it through a Pi0 with a assistant setup to offload the hardware requirements. So much potential!! Maybe when I'm done with my class and have more time to tinker around?

    yewtu.be/watch?v=uZ-sa-u8rIE

  5. This is one of the reasons I've been a big supporter of in the past, and I'm still supporting and . I think a voice driven UI (VUI) is important, but the biggest players in that market are Google and Amazon, and their motivation isn't improving the experience for the people using their devices, it's monetizing anything and everything they can. I'd love to see a new smart speaker (*cough* @PINE64 *cough*) that would support OVOS or NeonAI soon.

    arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/0

  6. @ggiesen Agreed. Home Assistant integration is a big part of why I wanted one too. I only lost one to Mycroft going under, but still grates. That being said, Neon and OVOS are still developing and is really pushing on their "Year of the Voice". I'm hoping that the updates HA makes with the will make things easier assistants like to integrate. I could be completely wrong about that, but it seems like having some of this stuff built in will ease the load.

  7. Got the new version of installed on my . Neon is just a touch too heavy for the hardware in the Mark2. I've heard you can upgrade the Pi to a model with more RAM and supposedly that makes a huge difference. If you can get a Pi. I'm hoping when they get around to a Pi 5 :raspberrypi: it'll keep close enough to the same form factor that it can be dropped into the Mark2. It would be really nice to give it a bit more oomph.

  8. Ooo, just got notified that the new Version 2.0 is available for my That's super exciting. I can't wait to try it out!

    neon.ai/UpgradeGuideV2.0