Voice AI Assistants

Comments discuss and recommend voice-powered AI assistants like Mycroft.ai, Wit.ai, and others, comparing them to Siri/Google Assistant and expressing desire for seamless natural language integration without apps or websites.

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dubcanada Sep 18, 2014 View on HN

How is this any different then https://wit.ai/ ?

scotu Feb 9, 2018 View on HN

have you heard of https://mycroft.ai/ ? Opinion?

micromacrofoot Nov 14, 2025 View on HN

I do, the "go to a website to use AI" era is taking too long, I want full integration. I don't want to use websites or apps, I want to ask for things using human language and get a human-like response. I tire of all these interfaces.

corethree Jan 12, 2024 View on HN

Try google assistant. Google assistant actually has a little bit of an LLM in it, so it's a bit smarter.

rfarley04 Nov 15, 2023 View on HN

Honest question, how does this differ from using the built-in voice interaction with any other GPT?

metachris Jan 3, 2017 View on HN

Check out api.ai, for instance the demo in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SUAuy9OJg4

Hyption Feb 25, 2023 View on HN

It can interface with apis it only read about.Ask it to write an SQL query and it will.Give it upfront context and it will be able to produce API commands.The voice recognition can trigger chatgpt API 'create API command for the following text's.The practical problem is cost and hardware.But this is closer than we ever were.

confounded May 24, 2018 View on HN

You may be interested in https://mycroft.ai/

AstralStorm Jul 13, 2025 View on HN

Try using AI in a useful manner then, as a voice or shorthand input method.

HPsquared Apr 21, 2024 View on HN

Maybe an opportunity for LLM-powered AI agent with voice recognition on the automated kiosks. Can even ask it how its day has been.