Ask HN: Best Smart Speaker and libraries for hacking
I’d like to build an audio life coach. Plays me a few things I find useful at different times of the day.  If I’m out I would have it call my phone and talk to me.<p>I’m interested in:
What smart speaker has great audio tech (ie microphone array) that I can use for my own apps.<p>What audio libraries are the best for doing speech recognition?<p>What are the best scheduling libraries that I can use to integrate all this together and have it add and remove things from a calendar, send emails, Eg ifttt type stuff.<p>I understand the answer is likely Google Home&#x2F;Alexa for part of this, but I would very much prefer a solution where the processing runs on my hardware and doesn’t need to listen&#x2F;send my audio to a third party.