Ian Malone wrote:
Just to chip in: worth noting that voice activation doesn't have
to be
central server based (though that's the approach Google, Amazon et al.
take, for the reason they want All The Data), and voice control can be
incredibly important for accessibility purposes.
There is actually a KDE project developing voice control for accessibility
purposes:
https://simon.kde.org/
This is purely local and does NOT send your data to some central server.
It is already packaged in Fedora:
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/simon
But Alexa and the like are really awful spyware and NOT something one should
want on one's computer.
Kevin Kofler