Our school district's tech conference had a few speakers talking about voice assistants like Google Home and Alexa. One speaker mentioned his students were creating their own programs to use with Alexa using Amazon's API. That got we wondering if there were Open Source options that would let students see how to build their own personal assistants not just add code to a commercial project. So, below are some related links on the subject. If you know of others, please share. I am especially interested in finding a decent C or C++ Speech to Text library. If anyone has ideas on that topic, please let me know. Would like to include it in some Open Source software I'm porting to improve accessibility. Thanks. The FSF has more information on personal assistants and this is one of their priorities for Free Software development: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority-projects/personalassistant Open Source voice assistant projects: http://openassistant.org/tools/ https://github.com/MycroftAI https://github.com/claritylab/lucida https://jasperproject.github.io/ http://www.theadrianproject.com/ Open Source Speech to Text resources: https://github.com/cmusphinx/pocketsphinx https://github.com/cmusphinx/sphinxbase/tree/master/src https://github.com/sphinxsearch/sphinx https://github.com/kaldi-asr/kaldi https://github.com/julius-speech/julius DeepSpeech (which uses tensorflow): https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech/tree/master/native_client https://github.com/mozilla/tensorflow/ https://github.com/arthurv/srec Text to Speech resources: http://www.festvox.org/flite/index.html http://espeak.sourceforge.net/ https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng https://github.com/MycroftAI/mimic