Hacker News with Generative AI: Voice Assistants

Siri "unintentionally" recorded private convos; Apple agrees to pay $95M (arstechnica.com)
Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that its voice assistant Siri routinely recorded private conversations that were then sold to third parties for targeted ads.
Privacy, Apple, Lawsuits, Voice Assistants
78 points by _tk_ 15 days ago | 26 comments
Apple will pay $95M to people who were spied on by Siri (theverge.com)
Apple has agreed to a $95 million settlement with users whose conversations were inadvertently captured by its Siri voice assistant and potentially overheard by human employees.
Privacy, Lawsuits, Apple, Siri, Voice Assistants
20 points by tanduv 15 days ago | 0 comments
Siri mixes up baby kangaroo with Friends sitcom actor (mastodon.social)
Siri, Voice Assistants, Entertainment, Pop Culture
19 points by latexr 20 days ago | 3 comments
The era of open voice assistants (home-assistant.io)
We all deserve a voice assistant that doesn’t harvest our data and arbitrarily limit features. In the same way Home Assistant made private and local home automation a viable option, we believe the same can, and must be done for voice assistants.
Privacy, Open Source, Voice Assistants
931 points by _Microft 29 days ago | 278 comments
The Alexa Skills revolution that wasn't (theverge.com)
The first Amazon Echo, all the way back in 2014, was pitched as a device for a few simple things: playing music, asking basic questions, getting the weather.
Amazon Alexa, Voice Assistants, Consumer Technology
6 points by marban 76 days ago | 2 comments
Launch HN: Hamming (YC S24) – Automated Testing for Voice Agents (ycombinator.com)
Software, Testing, Voice Assistants, YC
129 points by sumanyusharma 156 days ago | 66 comments
New Google Pixel 9 voice assistant Gemini is a trainwreck (fastcompany.com)
Voice Assistants, AI, Reviews
14 points by jnord 156 days ago | 0 comments
Show HN: ShortLoop – Replay Audio Calls and Test Your VoiceAI (shortloop.dev)
Voice Assistants, Audio, AI, Software
14 points by deepakthakur 169 days ago | 6 comments
Launch HN: Martin (YC S23) – Using LLMs to Make a Better Siri (ycombinator.com)
Artificial Intelligence, Startups, Voice Assistants
153 points by darweenist 171 days ago | 103 comments
OpenAI starts rolling out new voice mode (twitter.com)
OpenAI, Voice Assistants, Artificial Intelligence, Technology
51 points by doubtfuluser 171 days ago | 24 comments
I coded an AI voice assistant using AssemblyAI, OpenAI and ElevenLabs (youtube.com)
AI, Voice Assistants, Programming, Open Source, Deep Learning
7 points by smithakolan 172 days ago | 0 comments
Ask Siri, Dictation and Privacy (apple.com)
Privacy, Voice Assistants, Apple
37 points by elpakal 177 days ago | 9 comments
Show HN: A fast OSS voice assistant (vercel.app)
Open Source, Voice Assistants, Software
82 points by Rauchg 194 days ago | 29 comments
Ask HN: How does Alexa avoid interrupting itself when saying its own name? (ycombinator.com)
Amazon Alexa, Voice Assistants
41 points by dumbest 207 days ago | 55 comments
Show HN: Local voice assistant using Ollama, transformers and Coqui TTS toolkit (github.com/mezbaul-h)
Voice Assistants, Open Source, Machine Learning
167 points by mezba 211 days ago | 26 comments
Show HN: 100% open-source voice assistant – as a HAL9000 (github.com/juergenpabel)
Open Source, Voice Assistants, AI, HAL9000
18 points by juergenpabel 217 days ago | 0 comments
Making my local LLM voice assistant faster and more scalable with RAG (johnthenerd.com)
Voice Assistants, Optimization
122 points by JohnTheNerd 217 days ago | 16 comments
Show HN: Pi-C.A.R.D, a Raspberry Pi Voice Assistant (github.com/nkasmanoff)
Raspberry Pi, Voice Assistants, Open Source, Hardware, DIY
344 points by nkaz123 249 days ago | 92 comments
Show HN: An open source framework for voice assistants (github.com/pipecat-ai)
Open Source, Voice Assistants, Software, AI
346 points by kwindla 250 days ago | 39 comments
Apple Will Revamp Siri to Catch Up to Its Chatbot Competitors (nytimes.com)
Artificial Intelligence, Chatbots, Apple, Technology, Voice Assistants
26 points by mistersquid 253 days ago | 23 comments
Should Apple Kill Siri and Start Over? (macrumors.com)
Apple, Siri, Voice Assistants
32 points by marban 275 days ago | 41 comments
Ask HN: It's 2024, why are voice assistants still so buggy? (ycombinator.com)
Artificial Intelligence, Voice Assistants, Technology
11 points by samuelg123 279 days ago | 11 comments
Amazon virtually kills efforts to develop Alexa Skills (arstechnica.com)
Amazon, Artificial Intelligence, Voice Assistants, Business
172 points by Stratoscope 281 days ago | 203 comments