We looked at Jasper extensively, and had problems getting it to do what we want. I’ve reached out to the Jasper team about working together moving forward. We’ll see what they say!
@ryanleesipes did this thing appear on your radar before?
http://aidorobot.com/sdk.html
It seems that there is a lot of overlap in Mycroft’s and Aido’s functionality and what they are trying to achieve, so there is potential for collaboration or partnership.
Seems like they have Chrome STT for voice recognition and Festival for speech if it’s installed. Will try to download and enable it on my machine so that I can test out what it can do. But even from project description I see that it’s missing Mycroft’s biggest advantage: skills / modularity in general.
Some time ago I ranted about how I would love to see whole open-source-AI community step together and check how everyone’s goals align.
I made a short list of all the projects that fall in roughly the same category as Mycroft.
Getting contacts for some of them could be a bit trivial, but for those who have contacts, they should be invited to a mailing list or even some real-time discussion. Important topics would probably be:
Why did you decide to start a new project instead of taking and improving existing one?
What is current architecture of your intelligent personal assistant? How do you plan to implement the improvements?
Figure out what’s the overlap in goals of all the projects. If enough overlap, propose working together.