Athena
Athena is an open source Google Assistant replacement, that doesn't require any Google services to run
Motivation
Athena was developed to meet the needs of the open source community, while offering quality alternatives to producs in the closed source world. My original goal was simply to find a flexible mobile assistant that I could develop features for to help manage my ADHD. Finding nothing on the market to meet my need that also respected the ethics of free and open source software, I decided to start developing my own. It started out as a port of Mycroft for Android but due to system differences it quickly turned into its own project under the title "The Sapphire Assistant Framework". However I was concerned the flexibility and configuration of the Sapphire Framework might overwhelm non-technical users so I decided to trim down the code and create a default implementation that would work out of the box for 99% of users. Thus, Athena was born.
Build Status
Pre-Alpha Build
Frameworks and Libraries Used
- CMU PocketSphinx
- TensorSpeech TTS
- Stanford CoreNLP
Contributions
- Financial contributions are always appreciated, and can help me move to making this my full time job. Check out the sponsor button in the repository if you are interested in helping to fund the project
- Join in the community on Reddit or Matrix at #SapphireFramework:matrix.org
- Android, Machine Learning developers, and UI/UX developers would be greatly appreciated for the project (or consulting at a minimum). I will continue to move forward reguardless, but it will go a lot quicker with some domain specific expertise
- Documentation help would be greatly appreciated. I generally have all of the information locked up in my head and I am working on documentation, but sometimes I miss what others would find helpful or need more information on. Feel free to ask questions on Reddit or Matrix (I'm pretty responsive) if you would like to help out