TIL: There is an open source "Alexa replacement" project - LibreTechni.ca

>As Snowden told us, video and audio recording capabilities of your devices are NSA spying vectors. OSS/Linux is a safeguard against such capabilities. The massive datacenter investments in US will be used to classify us all into a patriotic (for Israel)/Oligarchist social credit score, and every mega tech company can increase profits through NSA cooperation, and are legally obligated to cooperate with all government orders. > >Speech to text and speech automation are useful tech, though always listening state sponsored terrorists is a non-NSA targeted path for sweeping future social credit classifications of your past life. > >Some small LLMs that can be used for speech to text: https://modal.com/blog/open-source-stt [https://modal.com/blog/open-source-stt]