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I'm looking to replace Alexa. I own the hardware and have started putting things together but haven't sorted it all out yet. I have an Audio Classification Model (keyphrase detector) running on the coral tpu board next to our echo dot (alexa). That is a bit of a modified, cobbled together, absolute hack --but it's not too bad... I'd say it almost hears better than Alexa at times.
I'm currently using whisper with the whisper.cpp engine it is hands down the best speech to text model. It is also the only one I tried that handles background noise, like music, TV, traffic,etc.
But I would recommend writing some proper glue logic in Python and use the socket function for communication. But if you really want to get rid of Alexa, it's probably worth it to set up mycroft.ai or another open source assistant.