Dicio assistant

Stypox

About this app

Dicio is a free and open source voice assistant. It supports many different skills and input/output methods, and it provides both speech and graphical feedback to a question. It uses Vosk for speech to text. It has multilanguage support, and is currently available in Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish and Ukrainian.

Dicio answers questions about:

• search: looks up information on DuckDuckGo (and in the future more engines) - Search for Dicio


• weather: collects weather information from OpenWeatherMap - What's the weather like?


• lyrics: shows Genius lyrics for songs - What's the song that goes we will we will rock you?


• open: opens an app on your device - Open NewPipe


• calculator: evaluates basic calculations - What is four thousand and two times three minus a million divided by three hundred?


• telephone: view and call contacts - Call Tom


• timer: set, query and cancel timers - Set a timer for eleven minutes


• current time: query current time - What time is it?


• navigation: opens the navigation app at the requested position - Take me to New York, fifteenth avenue


• jokes: tells you a joke - Tell me a joke


• media: play, pause, previous, next song - Next Song


• translation: translate from/to any language with Lingva - How do I say Football in German?

Dicio can receive input through a text box or through Vosk speech to text, and can talk using toasts or the Android speech synthesis engine. Interactive graphical output is provided by skills when they answer a question.

Each skill can be enabled, disabled or customized using the related settings screen. Dark, black and dynamic color themes are available.

The user input is interpreted by specific, yet reusable, libraries: dicio-sentences-compiler and dicio-numbers.

This app has the NonFreeNet anti-feature because some skills use non-free services to obtain the information requested by the user. You can easily disable unwanted skills or choose alternative services via settings.

Ratings and reviews

Sadly the voice recognition is very bad and some things like timers are not dealt like they should; the alarm is shown in the app but nowhere else and there's no way to turn it off. It doesn't understand english very well; alarm in five minutes = a lot of five minutes, set a timer in five minutes = so that they marry five minutes, cancel alarm = councillor love, cancel the timer = johnson the timer.

it simply doesn't work. I don't know what the point of it is because it doesn't do anything. if you ask it to open an app it opens a random one. if you ask it a question all it "says is sorry I don't understand" If you do manage to get it to search for something, you can't click anything that it found because there's no way for this to open links. this app doesn't do anything. I'm not sure why it was created or what they hoped to achieve except frustration.

How do you pronounce the wakeword? App doesn't tell you, couldn't find in docs, and the GitHub issue where other users asked didn't seem to merit a direct answer.

What’s new

New:
• Add translation skill via Lingva
• Add jokes skill (but API only supports cs,de,en,es,fr,pt)
• Add Dutch language, and improve German

Improved:
• Better accessibility when used through TalkBack or dpad buttons
• Better classification of network errors
• [Android 15+] Support 16kB pages

Fixed:
• [Search] Fix opening results in browser, fix search language, fix invalid URLs, improve error messages
• [Listening] Fix NullPointerException when wakeword not running