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submitted 8 months ago by milkytoast@kbin.social to c/foss@beehaw.org

Theres Dicio, which honestly does all that I need a voice assistant to do, but I have to open the app to use it, I cant just say "Hey Dicio" or whatever. Is something like that possible?

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[-] rar@discuss.online 4 points 8 months ago

There could be a software implementation that works perfectly fine on desktop PCs, especially Linux, but problem is hardware. I don't see commercial smartphone manufactures giving access to 'unauthorized uses' like foss projects usually go around.

[-] tesseract@beehaw.org 3 points 8 months ago

You're right. The 'open source' android phones are the perfect example. But FOSS needs to stop relying on these fascist hardware stack and opt for better open modular platforms. We have examples for such things - like the framework laptops or fairphones. It's somewhat tolerable for laptops. But we are still too far behind in terms of mobiles and desk boxes needed for these sorts of projects.

[-] drwankingstein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 months ago

considering android allows you to actively change the default assistant it won't be a problem, we already have plenty of apps that use overlays that are foss so that's not an issue either, so I really have no idea what you think would be locked down here.

dicio is just kind of a clunky app

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