This picture isn’t mine BTW. I don’t have an Apple Watch and never want to buy one.

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    The only useful application of a speech-based assistant I saw was Alexa in the kitchen. A person had their hands full and said “set the timer to 15 minutes”. Saying stuff like “Alexa, dim the lights” is also very cool. I hope, Mozilla’s Common Voice Project leads to trained models for speech recognition which can be used off-line for things like the Mycroft FOSS assistant, maybe in combination with the Open Source Home Assistant automation platform.

    Currently, I have to talk to my partner, who sadly isn’t named Alexa, when I want a similar effect. Maybe I can program the digital assistant to have their and my name as activation words so everything we say to each other which can be automated is triggered automatically. Or even stuff like “I am very cold, I wish it was warmer inside” triggering our smart thermostats to raise the temperature. Kind of like the SARAH AI in Eureka.