Build a Solid Voice Assistant (Solexa?)

[rubensworks]

Pitch

Several voice assistents like Alexa, Siri, Google Assistance, etc, already exist. These voice assistants help us to discover information (e.g. will it rain today), and to give tasks (e.g. turn the lights off). All (most?) of these voice assistants are based on centralised technologies, and act as a black-box. The goal of this challenge is to build a decentralised voice assistant using Solid.

Desired solution

This voice assistant should be able to accept speech (audio), and convert it into SPARQL select or update queries (optionally with natural language text as intermediary step). Each voice assistant should be linkable to a WebID (this could be done via the query engine). These queries can then be executed over your (or someone else's) Solid pod.

Acceptance criteria

A webapp must be able to:

• be linked with your Solid WebID (this can be done without voice)
• reply to:
  • What is my name?
  • How many friends do I have?
  • What are my interests?
  • What is the most popular interest among my friends?
  • Optional: Where is X (a friend)? (related to #10)
• act upon:
  • Change my name to X
  • Send "Hello world" to X (a friend) (related to #1)
  • Mark the movie Titanic as seen (https://noeldemartin.github.io/media-kraken/)
  • Optional: Schedule a meeting between X, Y, and Z (depends on #2)

Pointers

• https://mycroft.ai/ (others may exist)
• https://github.com/MycroftAI

Scenarios

N/A

Deadline

October 1st 2022

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[rubensworks]

Status update

An initial meeting with @Sindhu-Vasireddy is being planned.

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Status update

@Sindhu-Vasireddy and I had an initial brainstorm meeting yesterday. She'll do an exploratory search on the required software now.

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[angelo-v]

I have rhasspy running at home, it should not be too complicated to write a skill for it accessing a Solid Pod to read some data and output a response. I have coded some skills, but nothing solid related yet.

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[rubensworks]

This challenge is not actively being worked on at the moment.