Good morning,
We're also keen AllStarLink/app_rpt users/experimenters here in Winnipeg and Dan mentioned a discussion about the work I did on here, so thought I'd fill in the blanks. Also joined this list.
I started with Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa and really just wanted to control devices using voice, the "what's the weather" was just an added bonus, but all that requires internet.
I also liked the speed of running the assistant code in real-time, as you speak that's actually a stream to Google/Amazon so the results you get are immediate vs rec/upload/download/play.
For the majority of ham radio actual "needs" in voice control the Picovoice Rhino project speech-to-intent would do a great job. If you haven't check it out:
https://github.com/Picovoice
All of that great capability runs entirely on the device/server/reflector, no internet or web service call to Google/Amazon is needed. And it produces this simple output too:
{
"type": "espresso",
"size": "small",
"numberOfShots": "2",
"sugar": "a lot",
"milk": "some"
}
We should do this, my 2010 Ford Escape has had Microsoft Sync voice control and it's nothing new. Everything has voice control these days, and it actually works really well now.
The only challenge in ham is we need to come up with some standard commands so if you're visiting here you know the repeater has this capability and how to work it.
If anything I'm just glad the videos I posted a while back got this topic going again. Certainly not the first person to poke around with voice - it's just really easy now to implement this.
Thanks to all the folks working on AllStarLink/app_rpt too. I just built a firmware image with AllStarLink for a Sierra Radio Systems CommServer board and it was apt-get-easy --let-me-drink-my-coffee-while-the-hard-work-gets-done ;)
Thanks,
William VE4VR