dicio-android VS Mycroft-Android

So perhaps it's a good day to call for contributors to add more actions to https://github.com/Stypox/dicio-android ? If Google wants to remove features, they can be replaced by something that doesn't have that problem.

I've just discovered Dicio, a promising voice assistant and speech-to-text app that is pure FOSS. I'd love to use the apps's speech-to-text capabilities system-wide. Reading through the Github page of the app tells me that this is possible.

Dicio is the onl one I know. Since version 0.8 it can be used as a general SST engine from any app (didn't test it personally tho)

Dicio (version Placeholder): Voice assistant: multilanguage, configurable and free

You can use open source assistant instead like Dicio https://github.com/Stypox/dicio-android and configure it the way you like.

Check it here

Hey! Best thing I know of at the moment is Dicio made by some of the same people behind NewPipe.

There is.. sort of. This is their official companion app, but you have to build it yourself in Android Studio. There is some trouble with building recent versions, though, and the one I have is getting pretty old. It's never been given much attention, so I wouldn't hold my breath.

The open source build of AAOS doesn't come with a built in voice assistant or speech engine, you have to ask Amazon or Google nicely (and probably have plans to build millions before they'll bother). * It might be possible to build a free one out of open stuff like Mycroft (there is an Android companion app here but it requires running the core service somewhere else and is still using Google APIs which don't work by default on automotive--so, some work to do to port the core service to Android and build in the STT and TTS)

just use MyCroftAi - they also integrated Mozilla TTS: https://github.com/MycroftAI/Mycroft-Android https://mycroft.ai/

After quite a bit of searching for alternative digital assistants on Android, there doesn't seem to be much choice. The only two projects I see working on this are Dicio and Mycroft-Android

The closest FOSS thing is Mycroft, but it's still in development. The Android version hasn't been updated since 2020 Jul 15th, but the Core is regularly updated.

The codebase is very stale, but it is all there is, unless you want to compile yourself - I don't think that it compiles out if the box though, based on issue 90.

There is a community-driven Mycroft android app: https://github.com/MycroftAI/Mycroft-Android