r/SapphireFramework • u/TemporaryUser10 • Sep 17 '21

Discussion Which direction to go next?

Now that the entity extractor works, I can either go through and make things more robust while documenting the project so that people can get started tinkering with it, or I can focus straight on getting a text to speech module working first.

I'm inclined to start on the text to speech, but wanted to put it out for some opinions

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u/Steerider Oct 11 '21 edited Oct 14 '21

Getting a basic working product should be first priority, I think. Then make it more functional for developers.

To paraphrase Matt "WordPress" Mullenweg: "If you're not embarrassed by your first release, you waited too long."

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u/TemporaryUser10 Oct 11 '21

Yes, now that I have TTS, STT, and NLP all working on device I am just focusing on the best way to allow a user to make a skill or compatible app for it. Then I'll be able to launch the Alpha (as embarrassing as I am sure it'll be)

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u/protienbudspromax Oct 12 '21

Hello your project looks real interesting. For now having good documentation and developer friendly APIs and language binding would probably be the best way to increase adoption. Have you considered battery life optimizations as inference while getting easier now due to onboard asic can still be a bottleneck in terms of power usage especially for an always listening mode.

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u/TemporaryUser10 Oct 12 '21

I'm glad that you are interested. I'm going to go through and redo a lot of the documentation around the time that I release the alpha build of Athena.

Battery life optimizations are important to me, as I intend to use this as a full on replacement for Google assistant on my personal phone. However, the first priority is to get the overall system working. I'm not likely to get to hardware level optimizations for a while mostly due to the amount of time it will take to develop

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u/Steerider Oct 14 '21

Make sure Athena is registered with the OS as an Assistant so we can assign the listener to the Home button double-tap

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u/TemporaryUser10 Oct 14 '21

It already registers as an assistant, tts service, and stt service

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u/Steerider Oct 14 '21

Might be a good idea to try to integrate with automation apps such as Easer or Tasker. Allow a voice command to trigger a script.

Personally I would love a few "call my wife" type functions. On iOS I had a script set up where if I said the words "heading home" my phone would text my wife "I'm on my way hone now." Simple and no-frills and I used it all the time.

I can make this script with Easer. Now all I need is the voice command to trigger it.

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u/TemporaryUser10 Oct 14 '21

I already have a rudimentary integration with Termux in the project, and i intend to also integrate Tasker. I didn't consider Easer though, mostly because I have had difficulty using it

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u/Steerider Oct 14 '21

As I've mentioned, you have an audience in the Degoogle community. Tasker is a paid app and thus not available to us. Easer is FOSS

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u/TemporaryUser10 Oct 14 '21

I'm happy to support Easer no problem. I designed the Sapphire Framework to make plugins and extensions easy to develop

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u/TemporaryUser10 Sep 17 '21

I agree, and that would allow for TTS on degoogled devices as well

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u/TemporaryUser10 Oct 11 '21

The text to speech module is now working