With the recent advance in speech technology, smart voice assistants have been improved and are now used by many people. But often these assistants are running online as a cloud service and are not always known for a good protection of users' privacy. This paper presents the architecture of a novel voice assistant, called Jaco, with the following features: (a) It can run completely offline, even on low resource devices like a RaspberryPi. (b) Through a skill concept it can be easily extended. (c) The architectural focus is on protecting users' privacy, but without restricting capabilities for developers. (d) It supports multiple languages. (e) It is competitive with other voice assistant solutions. In this respect the assistant combines and extends the advantages of other approaches.
翻译:随着最近语音技术的进步,智能语音助理得到了改进,现在许多人都使用。但这些助理经常以云服务的形式在网上运行,而且并不总是以妥善保护用户隐私而闻名。本文介绍了一个叫Jaco的新型语音助理的架构,具有以下特点:(a) 它可以完全脱机运行,即使是在像RaspberryPi这样的低资源设备上。 (b) 通过一个技能概念,它可以很容易扩展。 (c) 建筑的重点放在保护用户隐私上,但不限制开发者的能力。 (d) 它支持多种语言。 (e) 它与其他语音助理的解决方案具有竞争力。在这方面,助理将其他方法的优势结合起来并加以扩展。