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Build your own Siri locally and on-device

https://thehyperplane.substack.com/p/build-your-own-siri-locally-on-device
86•andreeamiclaus•4h ago

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caust1c•2h ago
So build your own crappy agent-assistant?

In earnest though, I'm certain we'll see a community replacement of Siri by end-of-year if the iPhone permissions model allows it or there's some workaround. IDK what the limitations are here but I'm eagerly awaiting the community to step in where Siri has failed.

Ancapistani•2h ago
The assistant is only half the story here. This looks like a great, well-defined tutorial project to learn how to put this stuff together locally.
andrewmcwatters•2h ago
Crappy? Dude, Siri at one point couldn't even tell you what today's date was. The bar is on the ground.
4ndrewl•1h ago
Think Different
0cf8612b2e1e•1h ago
I do not know if it is because I have been trained to make simple requests, but there are only a half dozen things I would verbally ask a robot.

- time of day

- calendar date

- weather

- set a timer

- simple math calculation

That’s 90% of the functionality right there.

andrewmcwatters•40m ago
Funny you mention this. My usage is the same. I suspect we’ve all been trained to expect little-to-nothing from these assistants.
jihadjihad•7m ago
And incredibly it manages to get those wrong a non-trivial amount of the time.
dang•1h ago
> So build your own crappy agent-assistant?

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(Your comment would be fine without that first bit.)

thedeep_mind•2h ago
This is great, thanks for putting this together.

Haven't followed it through yet, but does this model run successfully on an iPhone?

My 9 year old ran a Qwen 0.6B model using ollama quite well, anything else was too slow to offer a good UX.

mrcwinn•1h ago
Cool project and nice write-up!
mystified5016•1h ago
Does Apple even allow you to replace Siri with another assistant? For the longest time on android, all non-Google assistants were crippled by not being able to listen in the background or use the assistant hardkey, gestures, or shortcuts. I'm not sure if the Google assistant still has privileges others don't, but I wouldn't be surprised in the least.
jedisct1•1h ago
More or less. This is what Perplexity does.
matthewfcarlson•6m ago
Part of the problem is the wake word “hey siri” is actually handed by a separate coprocessor (AOP) with the model compiled into the firmware. While anything is technically possible, it isn’t as simple as just letting the google app run in the background since the AP is asleep when any of these gesture happen. You could probably setup the action button on the side to open an assistant, but that’s going to be a less pleasant experience (app might not be open, etc).

Details are listed below

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/hey-siri

catapart•1h ago
Man, I'd really love it if this were just a product/app I could download and use a UI to configure/teach.

But this guide gives me what I need to make that, I think, so a big thank you for this!

worldsayshi•18m ago
I love the idea and I would like to build something like this. But the few attempts i have made using whisper locally has so far been underwhelming. Has anyone gotten results with small whisper models that are good enough for a use case like this?

Maybe I've just had a bad microphone.

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