Custom Speech-to-Text (STT) and Text-to-Speech (TTS) Servers for Mycroft AI | DigiKey

Smart speakers use voice assistants, like Alexa and Siri, to respond to spoken commands and perform a number of tasks, such as giving us the weather forecast, news updates, search results, etc. They can even order items and play games with us. Mycroft AI, like many smart speakers, requires Internet actions to perform a variety of tasks, including speech-to-text (STT), text-to-speech (TTS), and information retrieval (e.g. looking up the local weather). However, this can often be slow in some situations and possibly introduce security hazards if outsiders were able to snoop on your plaintext web traffic.