From 737de716a9084844500a7bdb626e517f6515285d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joshua Boniface Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 01:16:29 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Update last intro paragraph wording --- content/post/self-hosted-voice-control.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/post/self-hosted-voice-control.md b/content/post/self-hosted-voice-control.md index 85d699f..8bd4295 100644 --- a/content/post/self-hosted-voice-control.md +++ b/content/post/self-hosted-voice-control.md @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Voice control is both a new, and quite old, piece of the home automation puzzle. In the last few years, real-life technology has finally progressed to the point that this is truly possible. While there have been many attempts over the years, the fact is that reliable voice recognition requires massive quantites of computing power, machine learning, and sample data. It's something that truly requires "the cloud" to be workable. But with the rise of Google and Amazon voice appliances, the privacy implications of this have come into play. As a now-widely-circulated comic puts it, 30 years ago people were concerned about police wiretaps - now, they say "Wiretap, order me some duct tape"! And this is compounded by the proprietary nature of these appliances. Sure, the company may _say_ that they don't listen to you all the time, but without visibility into the hardware and software, how much can we really trust them? -Luckily, the free software community has a couple of answers. And today, it's possible to build your own appliance! It still uses the Google/Amazon/Microsoft speech-to-text facilities, but by controlling the hardware and software, you can be sure that the device is only listening to you when you tell it to! This blog post will document how to build one yourself. +Luckily, the free software community has a couple of answers. And today, it's possible to build your own appliance! It still uses the Google/Amazon/Microsoft speech-to-text facilities, but by controlling the hardware and software, you can be sure that the device is only listening to you when you tell it to! Hopefully one day projects like Sphinx and Kaldi will be up to the task, but for now we're stuck using the cloud players, for better or worse. ## Hardware - The Raspberry Pi and ReSpeaker