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Notes from the bench.
Releases, design notes and the reasoning behind Alexsay, the open-source voice assistant speaker you build and own.
Why it is called Alexsay
Alex, say. Aleksei. A name you can call across a room, and the reasons behind it.
2 min readThe smart speaker is a closed box. Here is an open one.
Why home assistant speakers still lack an open stack with your own AI, and how Alexsay does it: open hardware, open source, Rust, software echo cancellation and builds for every popular architecture.
6 min readAlexsay 0.1: the first release
The first Alexsay release: one Rust binary for every platform, an on-device wake word, software echo cancellation, memory, phone calls, lights and your own server.
4 min read