Best voice assistant on Reddit
49 reviews from r/homeassistant, r/todoist, r/sonos and 9 more subreddits
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#1
4.1
(10)
"Google will never let you down"
"Google is the best at finding information."
"I have Google stuff in every room in the house and with my ifttt recipes it's easy as hell to add things to todoist."
"Google Assistant is the best BY FAR"
"Google Home is great for text-to-speech and audio playback."
"Assist should work mostly ok as well, as long as you have a mainstream accent."
"Rhasspy is the way to go. It's being developed specifically for home assistant."
"Google Home excels at information searches and provides smart assistance."
"Google only beats it with random questions."
"Frustrating experience with Todoist integration."
#2
Amazon
3.5
(11)
"Use Alexa to control the speakers."
"Alexa efficiently organizes tasks and integrates with Outlook."
"Alexa is better than Google Home for most tasks around the house."
"Alexa seems the best for voice-managed lights."
"Alexa provides easy off-the-shelf solutions and can be customized with routines."
"If you absolutely need something in the meantime I'd just stick a google or echo device there for now."
"Alexa is great for playing games and integrates well with Amazon services."
"Alexa works okay. It used to be better tho. Things no longer get added to Today by default."
"Alexa has gone downhill over the past year or two, and in July they are stopping several connections like lists."
"Alexa is basically just a light switch, timer, alarm clock and speaker and that's all it's good for."
#3
Apple
3.5
(6)
"Siri does most of what Alexa did."
"Siri works better with Home Automation and isn't constantly trying to sell me something."
"Replacing my Fire Sticks due to too many loud obnoxious ads."
"Siri excels at being an assistant to control your smart home."
"Easy to add tasks to Todoist using Siri Shortcuts."
"I'm worried that if I don't say Siri, my phone's gonna explode."
#4
Rhasspy
4.7
(3)
"Rhasspy is a versatile toolkit for building a locally hosted assistant, allowing control over various smart devices."
"Rhasspy seems to be the go to one these days."
"Rhasspy is fully customizable and can be linked to Home Assistant."
#5
Mycroft
3.5
(4)
"Great for building a voice assistant on Raspberry Pi!"
"There is a community-driven Mycroft android app: [https://github.com/MycroftAI/Mycroft-Android]"
"MycroftAI : Does seem to be going away - They are currently winding down operations."
"Mycroft the company is probably going away in its current form. The software's still out there, neon/ovos are the successors to it."
#6
Home Assistant
5.0
(2)
"Using an add-on called 'home-llm' to send input to the AI server is straightforward."
"Home Assistant's voice assistant integrates seamlessly with LLMs, making it a powerful tool for smart home automation."
#7
Raspberry Pi
4.5
(2)
"I just got my homebrew voice assistant working decently and I love it."
"Building my own system with Raspberry Pi Zero is working pretty well."
#8
Google Voice
5.0
(1)
"Google Voice is the only option."
#9
Sonos
5.0
(1)
"Use Sonos Voice Control to group the speakers."
#10
Ollama
5.0
(1)
"Setting up Ollama to host an LLM was super easy."
#11
Nabu
5.0
(1)
"The integration with ChatGPT allows for natural command input without needing to pre-think syntax."
#12
Faster-Whisper
5.0
(1)
"Great for local voice assistant tasks."
#13
Google Home
4.0
(1)
"Both work fine for voice control in my opinion."
#14
Google Gemini
4.0
(1)
"Try Google Gemini"
#15
NVIDIA
4.0
(1)
"It's not perfect, but it's local."
#16
Samsung
4.0
(1)
"Bixby can change every single tiny little inkling winkly setting on your TV."
#17
Piper
4.0
(1)
"Works well with local voice assistant."
#18
HA Voice Assistant
3.0
(1)
"It's local and still a work in progress."
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