How does this compare to mycroft?
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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Unfortunately Mycroft has been discontinued by its management team and is heading towards deprecation. This project is starting up now and has a strong initial release that works well. Mycroft was intended to be used with a cloud backend hosted by the Mycroft team (that being said they did eventually open source their backend but it was not intended for use with single instances).
Willow is designed to work with very low power/cost hardware (esp32-s3-box) and either homeassistant or openHAB right out of the box.
Oh wow, I didn't even hear it was discontinued, interesting.
Does it use a large language model? it says "Willow users can now self-host the Willow Inference Server for lightning-fast language inference tasks with Willow and other applications (even WebRTC) including STT, TTS, LLM, and more!"
but i'm not sure if that refers to using a large language model or if LLM refers to something else
Yes - I have not tested it out yet but the author of this project suggests Llama derivatives like Vicuna. I am excited to see how this project evolves alongside Homeasisstant's voice goals. The author of Rhasspy is working for Nabu Casa so im sure that will grow too!
ooo... this is interesting. I am getting more pressure from the boss to get speech recognition working, but hate the idea of even more google/apple/amazon in my house.
If this becomes a thing, i will be well placed to get less tin-hat ridicule from the family!