Canada surprisingly has music that Americans rarely know about but are quite famous up here:
Kim Mitchell - Patio Lanterns
The Tragically Hip - Pretty much any of their songs, but Ahead by a Century and 50 Mission Cap are my favorites
54-40 - One Day In Your Life
So there’s an answer, and then there’s a problem.
The easy answer is that Home Assistant has Voice Assistants now, and you can use Ollama, Whisper, and Piper to do that all locally.
The problem is that it really only talks to Home Assistant, there’s no ability to have it search the web, or make a phone call, or really anything else outside of Home Assistant without significant addon stuffs.
It also requires a reasonably significant amount of RAM on your computer to run the VM for Home Assistant while supporting Whisper and Piper and Ollama.
They aren’t wrong. Wikipedia having such curated and referenced knowledge is really really important.
They’re also seeing missives declines in visitation from humans because the AIs use it as a high quality source and people don’t even need to visit after the answers it gives.
This is one of those situations where AI companies need to be funding Wikipedia intentionally, so that the quality stays high so that their AI can continue using it as a source to answer questions CORRECTLY.
I don’t feel like I’m looking for something specific, as much as waiting for something to happen.
I have a lot of stuff I check multiple times per day, my google news feed, lemmy, youtube, and a few specific reddits. I also spend a lot of time on Discord in like a dozen different servers.
The “something has happened” part makes me happy briefly, but I’ve realized it doesn’t really do anything for me in terms of advancing my life, so I pretty much treat it like video game time. Doesn’t mean I’ve stopped doing it, but I’ve tried to pull back a little bit.
Agent voice response
It’s even mostly open source.
Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to work that way in reality. While the criminal laws are all public, there’s other rules and regulations that may not be.
At least where I’m from as an example, the building code is a paid product you have to purchase from the government. Yet if you build a home and don’t follow it, they will not allow you to live in it.
That one really bugs me. Anything the government produces in terms of rules or regulations should be available to the public for free.