Ask HN: Private Alternatives to Alexa?
by spir on Hacker News.
95% of the value we get from Alexa is automatic turning on/off of lights and simple functions like cooking timers. We’ve had Amazon Alexa for five years, since the gen 1 device, and now find it to be an increasing invasion to the sanctity of the home. We find it particularly annoying that nowadays, when you ask Alexa to do something, several times per week it will suggest some annoying upsell crap you don’t care about. It used to suggest things once per quarter tops, that was fine. HN, what private alternatives to Alexa may exist? For example, does anyone make a system that’s relatively polished and operates entirely in the home, with no audio sent to the cloud? I’d be happy to run a hub/box for the system.