Local alternative to Alexa?

[miba (Michael)]

@Dan wrote an excellent tutorial for Snips AI & MQTT here:

[OUTDATED Snips is dead!] Voice Control - How to use Snips AI and MQTT 2.4

Hi Folks, SnipsAI is a nice solution to talk to your Openhab. Other than Alexa or Google etc. it uses offline service and isn’t connected to any cloud service to manage ASR/TTS. But you can use an external TTS cloud service if the built in voice isn’t good enough for your purposes. My Snips is installed on a raspberry pi. I connect it via LAN to my openhab server. And here is how to manually configure a MQTT broker and thing for Snips: First you need to add a snips.things file Bridge mqtt:b…