> But if you think there will be people willing to self host and maintain a whole voice assistant service, you're off your rocker.

There were probably people who said that about open source operating systems, once upon a time.

Extremely complicated software is packaged down to an installer and installed by non-expert users all the time.

And that’s why you use Common Voice and Deep Speech from Mozilla.

https://research.mozilla.org/machine-learning/

I think you shouldn’t rush to judge the utility; consider that other people might find uses for a voice assistant that doesn’t require “a vast corpus of data” to function.

But moreover, if you need to call me “off my rocker,” you’re not engaging in good faith.