I can speak in dutch to it and it runs, scriptable, easy. no fancy stuff, but it speaksīelgium-dutch nicely, with lack of emotion yeah, but still.
The problem is, on my mac, i just download all the (high quality) voices and language packs. Range is not an issue, internet connection is, i pay for every byte send/received, and its unreliable it can be down for hours. and who stalks me on other websites to get to know my preferences. SO not going to buy something expensive that is "lock-in" with a vendor, not having access to my own data, and I having to agree its selling my private data to any third party with money. also that you can not use it anymore in x years when the manufacturer (or their server) is gone. "Ow I'm sorry sir there is no internet, we can't verify that you are you, cuz we can't login, so no, I can not turn the light on."įcuk that. No use with my flacky internet connection. My policy is every smart home product that uses a internet (cloud based) solution and has to connect to the internet (and has no local api), gets returned.
No, you would avoid such person as being non trust worthyĪnd getting stalked in almost every place you go.? ) were a person, would you socially interact with them knowing they tell anyone with money what you conversed with them? If these companies (facebook, amazon, microsoft, google. NO WAY i'm sending all my conversation to a stalker company. I want something that can listen to commands as osx dictation does (offline)