On: Amazon to kill off local Alexa processing, all voice requests shipped to cloud

[walterbell]

500 million Alexa-enabled devices were sold, hopefully some can be repurposed and kept out of landfills.

Updating Echo Dot V1 to newer kernel: https://andrerh.gitlab.io/echoroot/

Echo Dot V2 Android tinkering, https://github.com/echohacking/wiki/wiki/Echo-Dot-v2 & https://andygoetz.org/tags/dot/ & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0IEMVDebzE

[xyzzy_plugh → walterbell]

These devices never supported local processing anyways, right? So, no change there?

[walterbell → xyzzy_plugh]

If older devices can be modified, voice audio could be sent to non-cloud Linux/Mac for Whisper transcription to text command.