#amazon seller software

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How Amazon Seller Software Boosts Sales and Efficiency

The Amazon marketplace is a thriving hub for sellers, but fierce competition can leave you feeling like a lone explorer lost in a digital jungle. To carve out your niche and thrive, you need an edge.  

Here's where Amazon seller software emerges as your trusty machete, hacking a path to success and propelling your business to new heights. 

Sales & Marketing Mastery: Attract Customers and Close the Deal 

In the vast Amazon jungle, discoverability is paramount. Imagine customers searching for your fantastic products, but never finding them because they're hidden amongst the foliage. Seller software equips you with the tools to become a master of visibility and conversion: 

Keyword Mastery: Uncover hidden treasures! Leverage keyword research tools to identify high-traffic, relevant keywords. Optimise your product listings with these keywords, ensuring customers can easily find your offerings amidst the Amazonian abundance. 

Automation Advantage: Stop battling repetitive tasks! Schedule automated repricing to stay competitive and win the coveted Buy Box, the prime spot where customers add products to their carts. This frees you up to focus on strategic marketing initiatives. 

Promotional Powerhouse: Attract new customers and clear out inventory with effortless management and scheduling of product promotions and sales. Think of it as a digital bullhorn to announce your amazing deals to the Amazonian masses. 

Inventory Management Ninja: Stay Stocked and Avoid Stockouts 

Stockouts in the Amazon jungle can be disastrous! Imagine a hungry customer arriving at your digital storefront, only to find your shelves bare. Seller software empowers you to be a stock control ninja, ensuring you always have the right products in stock: 

Stock Control Savvy: Real-time inventory tracking across all locations (warehouses, fulfilment centres) is crucial. Seller software provides this vital information, preventing stockouts, overselling, and ensuring customer satisfaction. No more angry customer reviews for you! 

Demand Forecasting Wizard: Don't be caught unprepared! Software analyses sales data to forecast future demand. This allows you to prepare for peak sales periods and avoid stockouts that could disrupt your business flow. 

Automated Ordering: Never run out of your best-selling products again! Set up automatic reorder points to ensure a steady flow of inventory, keeping your Amazon business running smoothly. 

Operational Efficiency Mastermind: Streamline Operations and Save Time 

Time is money, especially in the fast-paced world of Amazon. Seller software transforms you into an operational efficiency mastermind, allowing you to streamline processes and free up valuable time: 

Listing & Order Management Magic: Simplify product listing creation and management with user-friendly tools. This saves time and effort, allowing you to focus on growing your business and not get bogged down in administrative tasks. 

Fulfilment Flow Automation: Streamline operations and reduce fulfilment errors with automated order fulfilment processes, including order picking, packing, and shipping. Imagine a well-oiled machine fulfilling orders with lightning speed! 

Customer Communication Champion: Manage customer inquiries and messages efficiently from a centralised platform, ensuring prompt and professional customer service. This fosters trust and loyalty, keeping customers happy and coming back for more positive reviews. 

Browntape OMS: Your Path to Amazon Success 

Ginesys Amazon seller software goes beyond the basics, offering a comprehensive suite of features designed to empower your business: 

Seamless Integrations: Effortlessly connect Ginesys with your existing Amazon account, marketing tools, and fulfilment services. 

Customizable Solutions: Tailor the software to your specific needs and business model, ensuring a perfect fit for your unique selling strategy. 

Expert Support: Ginesys provides exceptional customer support to guide you through every step of the process, from setup to ongoing optimization. 

Investing in Success: The Power of Seller Software 

By leveraging Amazon seller software, you unlock a treasure trove of benefits that will propel your business forward: 

Increased Sales: Attract more customers, convert them more effectively, and boost your overall sales volume. 

Enhanced Efficiency: Streamline your operations, save time, and reduce manual tasks, freeing up resources to focus on strategic growth. 

Improved Customer Satisfaction: Deliver faster fulfilment times, accurate order tracking, and professional communication, keeping customers happy and coming back for more. 

Data-Driven Decisions: Gain valuable insights to make informed decisions about your product offerings, marketing strategies, and inventory management. 

Success in the ever-changing world of Amazon requires the appropriate tools. Through the use of Browntape and Amazon seller software, you may take your company to new heights, optimise your processes, and dominate the market. using the strength of automation, insights from data, and first-rate customer care. 

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The Art of Amazon Copywriting: Crafting Winning Product Descriptions

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Amazon Seller Analytics Software: A Comprehensive View

Amazon seller analytics software is the latest business tool in the field of e-commerce. It has brought a significant change in the development of the business module and has been contributing a lot to the sellers in order to drive more and more sales. As it has the ability to provide the sellers the opportunity to keep a certain track of the position of the rivals. KwickMetrics is one of the most trusted providers of this essential software.

What Is Amazon Seller Analytics Software?

In this 21st century, Amazon is appearing as one of the largest marketplaces where the sellers are facing a high level of competitive notions. This calls for the need for certain software tools so that one can derive and generate a higher rate of profit. The presence of this sort of software helps the sellers to have a piece of detailed knowledge about the current scenario of their business and rank the position of the business adequately.

The Major Advantages of Using Amazon Seller Analytics Software Are:

It will enable you to have a better insight into the present position of your competitor and will alternatively help you gain a higher rank in the business domain.

Having this analytic tool will enable you to get a competitive advantage of moving ahead of your competition merchants who might try to undercut your pricing and make progressive moves.

The presence of exclusive data points provided by Amazon would assist you in making constructive tactical strategies.

The analytical reports that you will get will on the other hand enable you to drive more sales.

Using such an efficient tool would also benefit you in appearing among the top search rankings.

Why Choose KwickMetrics?

They are one of the leading solution providers and provides the following features that include:

Business dashboard

Category tree

Configurable chart

Expenses management

Business alerts

Inventory management

Reimbursements

Amazon advertisement

Product details

Creation of various reports

Amazon PPC, and many more.

So what are you waiting for? Bring a dynamic change to your business entity. Get connected with the experts and avail the best service. Book a call today to get a 14-day free trial!

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Amazon Sellers Software

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If you’ve rented an apartment in the US in the past several years, you may have had the sense that the game was rigged: Prices creep up not only at your building but at others throughout the city, seemingly in lockstep. A new civil lawsuit brought by the US Department of Justice today alleges that in many cases it’s not just in your head—and that a single company’s algorithm is to blame.

That company is RealPage, a Texas-based firm that provides commercial revenue management software for landlords. In other words, it helps set the prices of apartments. But it does so, the DOJ alleges in its lawsuit, by effectively helping its clients cheat; landlords feed rental rate and lease terms into the system, and the RealPage algorithm in turn spits out a suggested price that enables coordination and hinders competition.

“By feeding sensitive data into a sophisticated algorithm powered by artificial intelligence, RealPage has found a modern way to violate a century-old law through systematic coordination of rental housing prices,” deputy attorney general Lisa Monaco said in a statement.

RealPage’s reach is broad. It controls 80 percent of the market for software of its kind, which in turn is used to set prices of around 3 million units across the country, according to the DOJ. It already faces multiple lawsuits, including one from the state of Arizona and another in Washington, DC, where RealPage software is allegedly used to price more than 90 percent of units in large apartment buildings. RealPage’s algorithmic pricing first gained broader attention when a 2022 ProPublica investigation detailed how the company’s YieldStar software works.

The DOJ civil lawsuit, which was joined by the attorneys general of eight states, is a significant escalation in legal action against the company. It’s also a first for the DOJ, according to officials speaking on background during a call to discuss the complaint. While the government had previously filed criminal charges against an Amazon seller for algorithm-enabled price-fixing, this is the first civil action in which the algorithm itself, the Justice Department official says, was effectively the means of the violation.

The complaint itself quotes RealPage executives allegedly acknowledging anticompetitive aspects of its product. “There is greater good in everybody succeeding versus essentially trying to compete against one another in a way that actually keeps the entire industry down,” one RealPage executive allegedly wrote.

RealPage has repeatedly denied any allegations of antitrust violations, going so far as to publish a six-page digital pamphlet that claims to tell “the Real Story” about its products, along with an extensive FAQ page on a dedicated public policy website. The company did not immediately respond to a request for comment. “Attacks on the industry’s revenue management are based on demonstrably false information,” one section of that site reads. “RealPage revenue management software benefits both housing providers and residents.”

“We are disappointed that, after multiple years of education and cooperation on the antitrust matters concerning RealPage, the DOJ has chosen this moment to pursue a lawsuit that seeks to scapegoat pro-competitive technology that has been used responsibly for years,” said Jennifer Bowcock, senior vice president of communications and creative at RealPage, in an emailed statement. “RealPage’s revenue management software is purposely built to be legally compliant, and we have a long history of working constructively with the DOJ to show that."

The DOJ disagrees. “Algorithms don’t exist in a law-free zone,” said Monaco in a press conference to discuss the case. “Training a machine to break the law is still breaking the law.”

In this case, the complaint alleges that those algorithms consistently drove rental prices upward. “RealPage’s software tends to maximize price increases, minimize price decreases, and maximize landlords’ pricing power,” said the DOJ in a press release. RealPage also doesn’t just recommend prices; in many cases, it actively sets them.

“RealPage actively polices landlords’ compliance with those recommendations,” said US attorney general Merrick Garland in today’s press conference. “A large number of landlords effectively agree to outsource their pricing decisions to RealPage by using an ‘auto-accept’ setting that effectively permits RealPage to determine the price a renter will pay.”

The DOJ also claims RealPage has created a “self-reinforcing feedback loop” with its data intake and pricing recommendations structure that also gives it an alleged monopoly in the apartment revenue management software industry. Any competitor who plays by the rules, the DOJ claims, is at a distinct disadvantage.

The Justice Department has spent the past several years staffing up with technologists and data scientists, better enabling them to “interrogate the code,” as multiple officials described the investigative process. While this is the first major algorithmic collusion case, DOJ officials suggested it would be far from the last.

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RECENT ECOMMERCE NEWS (INCLUDING ETSY), AUGUST 2024

Hello, and welcome to my very last Ecommerce News update here on Tumblr.

After today, these reports will now be found at least twice a week on my Patreon, available to all paid members. See more about this change here on my website blog: https://www.cindylouwho2.com/blog/2024/8/12/a-new-way-to-get-ecommerce-news-and-help-welcome-to-my-patreon-page

Don't worry! I will still be posting some short pieces here on Tumblr (as well as some free pieces on my Patreon, plus longer posts on my website blog). However, the news updates and some other posts will be moving to Patreon permanently.

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TOP NEWS & ARTICLES 

Etsy has banned gift certificates/cards sold by individual shops, as of Sept 15. Only Etsy Gift Cards are now allowed. The second quarter report press release says they plan on selling Etsy Gift Cards through third parties, but no official word on how and when yet.

Many Amazon Handmade sellers were unable to list new items after a site update on July 31 [post by me on LinkedIn]. While Amazon told sellers to apply for an exemption from the Product ID requirement, some report that is not working, or that they do not have the option to apply for one. 

Reminder that Canadian Etsy shops will be charged a 1.15% Regulatory Operating fee on the item price and shipping cost as of August 15. [I’ve set a bunch of things to expire. If Etsy isn’t profitable enough to pay its taxes, maybe they should consider cutting executive pay instead of squeezing microbusinesses even more.]

ETSY NEWS 

Etsy has updated its Privacy Policy, to take effect August 31. Changes include mention of biometric data. Note that some parts of the policy are screenshots, and therefore not easily searchable nor accessible to screen readers - I am not sure how they can get away with that. I used the Wayback Machine to do a comparison of the parts that software can actually read.   There’s also a new US regional privacy policy, which currently covers laws in several states.  

Etsy is promoting a Labour Day sale August 21-September 2, and has already set up the "Cyber Savings Sale" (November 18-December 3) for Cyber Week. You can schedule the official sales through links in the announcement.

Forbes covered Etsy’s sex toy ban [soft paywall; not safe for work photos]. To no one's surprise, plenty of the banned items are still found on site, including toys and vintage Playboy magazines. 

Etsy is accused of allowing shops based in “illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory” and profiting off of them. Etsy’s response: "[W]e have shared this information internally with the appropriate teams for review."

Etsy's promised program for buyers - Etsy Insider - will be rolling out as invite-only beta in September. It's a paid membership for US buyers and includes:

Free US domestic shipping on millions of items

A birthday bonus

Limited edition annual gift, designed by an Etsy seller

First access to special discounts and select merchandise

While some of the "special discounts" are paid by sellers, that is a voluntary program shops can sign up for here. That form also allows you to sign up to offer new items to Etsy Insiders first - “drops” - which does not involve offering discounts. Etsy has done these sorts of "offers" in the past, and I believe they have already reached out to sellers for the first round of offers in September (based on some emails I have received from shop owners).

You can now sign up for “Etsy Up”, the virtual sellers conference scheduled for September 10. However, despite saying they have announced “our agenda”, all that is provided is a vague set of topics (other than the fact they will be announcing the Etsy Design Awards Finalists). It makes me wonder if there are official Etsy announcements coming soon that they don’t want to reveal too early by posting the real agenda. If yes, around August 15 is a good bet, given that  Etsy’s Search Analytics will end that day, and many new policies kick in on September 15, just one month later.

The Etsy app is showing rectangular listing images in search for some visitors, but it appears to be a test [Reddit thread with screenshot]. I wouldn’t change anything at this time. 

No, Etsy has not replaced your listing tags. I covered that topic here on LinkedIn. 

I wrote about the new Listing Image Requirement policy and the email Etsy sent to some sellers on Monday July 29. [post by me on Patreon] And not everyone is being fooled by Etsy’s new Creativity Standards, but some acknowledge it will be difficult for Etsy to turn away factory-made goods at this point. [Disclosure: I am quoted in that article]

ECOMMERCE NEWS (minus social media)

Amazon

Amazon’s second quarter revenue was below expectations, and the company predicts nothing better in the third quarter. 

In a surprising change, Amazon has decided to cancel overage fees for Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) inventory storage, retroactive to July 1. 

Canadian Amazon sellers will be subject to a new digital services fee as of October 1. This is due to Canada’s new digital services tax. 

In a case that may have an impact on other larger ecommerce sites, a court ruled that Amazon is responsible for recalls of products sold through Amazon, including through “Fulfilled By Amazon”. 

US Amazon shoppers can now link their Pinterest and TikTok accounts to Amazon to be able to buy directly from Amazon ads on social media. This is already available on Facebook, Instagram and Snap. 

Amazon is changing its refund policy for Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) users: if sellers do not receive an automatic reimbursement for loss, damage and returns, they will now only have 60 days to apply for one.  A lot of ecommerce experts think Amazon is making a mistake in setting up a China to US section on the site.

eBay

eBay second quarter revenue and profit was higher than expected, but the third quarter projections are low.  

The eBay app has taken a lot of flack for inserting ads between each item in a purchase history. 

Poshmark

As marketplaces popular for pre-owned items compete for the best new stock, Poshmark is offering “rewards” for listing at least 1 item a week. 

Shopify

Shopify had a better-than-expected second quarter, and expects a decent third quarter as well. Getting larger businesses to use Shopify has helped the tech company, but I still wonder how that affects the small and micro businesses who used to be the target market.

Walmart

The Walmart Marketplace has added Chile as its fourth country, after the US, Canada and Mexico. 

All Other Marketplaces

Hundreds of business owners who sell on Temu held a protest at the marketplace headquarters on July 29. Fines for returns are one cited issue. 

Payment Processing

Credit cards issued by Chase in the US will no longer allow third-party buy-now-pay-later purchases, as of October 10. Conveniently, they offer their own option, Chase Pay Over Time. PayPal has expanded the quicker checkout solution Fastlane to all US businesses, which fills in customer information without a log in.

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Amazon Book Sales Calculator for KDP: How Much Does a Best Seller Make?

Welcome to the Book and Ebook Sales Calculator, where you can input a book's best seller rank (BSR) & discover how much that book is making.

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Benefit of Product Photo Editing for Amazon In today's competitive online marketplace, the significance of high-quality product images cannot be overstated. As one of the world's largest e-commerce platforms, Amazon is a gateway for businesses to showcase their products to a global audience. The visual presentation of products plays a crucial role in capturing the attention of potential customers, influencing purchasing decisions, and ultimately driving sales. This article will explore the benefits of product photo editing for Amazon sellers, delving into how professional photo editing can enhance the platform's visibility, credibility, and conversion rates. By implementing effective editing strategies and leveraging the right tools, sellers can optimize their product images to stand out in a crowded marketplace and maximize their online presence.

1. Importance of High-Quality Product Images on Amazon

1.1 The Impact of Visual Content on Consumer Behavior

In a world where attention spans are shorter than a goldfish's memory, high-quality product images on Amazon can make or break a sale. Research shows that compelling visuals play a significant role in influencing consumer behavior, helping shoppers make informed purchasing decisions.

1.2 Stand Out in a Competitive Marketplace

Amazon is a jungle of products vying for attention. To survive and thrive in this competitive landscape, your product images need to shine brighter than a disco ball at Studio 54. High-quality visuals can make your products stand out, capturing the attention of potential buyers amidst a sea of options.

2. Enhancing Visibility and Sales with Professional Photo Editing

2.1 Optimizing Images for Amazon's Search Algorithms

Think of Amazon's search algorithms as picky matchmakers trying to pair products with shoppers. Professional photo editing can optimize your images, ensuring they meet the criteria to appear in search results and increase visibility among your target audience.

2.2 Increasing Click-Through Rates with Engaging Visuals

Just like a captivating movie trailer makes you want to watch the whole film, engaging visuals can entice shoppers to click on your product listing. Professional photo editing can help create visually appealing images that pique curiosity and drive higher click-through rates.

3. Building Trust and Credibility through Polished Product Photos

3.1 Establishing Brand Reputation with Consistent Image Quality

Consistency is key, whether you're talking about a good skincare routine or your product images. By maintaining high-quality and polished visuals across your Amazon listings, you can build trust with customers and establish a strong brand reputation.

3.2 Communicating Product Features and Benefits Effectively

A picture speaks a thousand words, especially when it comes to showcasing your product's features and benefits. Professional photo editing can help highlight key selling points, making it easier for customers to understand what your product offers and why they need it in their lives.

4. Maximizing Conversion Rates with Appealing Visuals

4.1 Creating a Compelling Product Story through Images

Every product has a story to tell, and your images are the storytellers. By creating a compelling narrative through visually appealing photos, you can draw customers in, evoke emotions, and ultimately drive them towards making a purchase.

4.2 Encouraging Purchase Decisions with High-Resolution Photos

Blurry photos belong in the '90s, not on your Amazon listings. High-resolution images, thanks to professional photo editing, can showcase your products in all their glory, giving customers a clear view of what they're getting and nudging them closer to hitting that "Add to Cart" button.

5. Strategies for Effective Product Photo Editing on Amazon

5.1 Selecting the Right Editing Tools and Software

When diving into the world of product photo editing for Amazon, choosing the right tools and software is key. Look for programs that offer a balance of user-friendliness and advanced features to help you achieve professional results without pulling your hair out in frustration.

5.2 Best Practices for Image Enhancement and Retouching

Product photos need to look their best to stand out on Amazon. Embrace techniques like color correction, background removal, and blemish retouching to ensure your products shine bright like a diamond (or at least like a well-polished product photo).

6. Leveraging Editing Tools and Techniques for Optimal Results

6.1 Understanding the Role of Lighting and Composition in Photography

Before you start editing, remember that photography basics matter. Play around with lighting and composition to capture eye-catching product shots that set the stage for editing magic to happen.

6.2 Enhancing Color Accuracy and Contrast for Visual Impact

Color is your secret weapon in the world of product photo editing. Use it wisely to enhance color accuracy and contrast, making your products pop off the screen like they’re saying, “Hey, look at me!��In conclusion, investing in professional product photo editing is a strategic move that can yield significant returns for Amazon sellers. By prioritizing the quality and visual appeal of their product images, sellers can build trust with customers, increase visibility, and ultimately boost sales. Through the implementation of effective editing techniques and adherence to best practices, sellers can enhance the overall shopping experience for customers and position their products for success in the competitive landscape of e-commerce. Embracing the power of polished product photos on Amazon can be a game-changer for businesses looking to make a lasting impression and drive sustainable growth online.

FAQ

Q: Why is it important to invest in professional photo editing for products on Amazon?

A: Professional photo editing enhances the visual appeal of products, builds credibility with customers, and increases the likelihood of conversion, ultimately driving sales on the platform.

Q: What are some key elements to consider when editing product photos for Amazon?

A: Factors such as image quality, consistency in branding, effective storytelling through visuals, and optimization for search algorithms are crucial considerations when editing product photos for Amazon.

Q: How can sellers ensure their product images comply with Amazon's guidelines and requirements?

A: Sellers can refer to Amazon's image guidelines, utilize templates provided by the platform, and stay updated on policy changes to ensure their product images meet the necessary standards for visibility and compliance.

Q: What are some common mistakes to avoid when editing product photos for Amazon?

A: Common mistakes include using low-resolution images, over-editing or altering the appearance of products inaccurately, inconsistent branding across images, and neglecting to optimize images for mobile viewing, all of which can impact the effectiveness of product visuals on Amazon. Check my Product Photo Editing and Retouching GIG: https://www.fiverr.com/s/1qzEBZ5

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You’ll also have to set up your Amazon Seller Account for use once you’ve got the logistics of the business fixed. There are two main options for sellers to use: Individual and Professional.

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Corporate greed is outta control and antitrust action is the best reason to vote for Biden this fall.

It’s time to declare the debate over. In 2021, the total corporate profit increase was $730bn, or a little over $2,100 a person. That’s a large chunk of the inflationary increase in costs. Moreover, the price-fixing in the oil industry, which contributed roughly $200bn of that, isn’t an anomaly.

Take post-Covid rent hikes. One software and consulting pricing firm for landlords, RealPage, specialized in telling its clients to hike rents more than they otherwise might. As of December of 2020, RealPage had nearly 32,000 clients, including “10 largest multifamily property management companies in the United States”. There are multiple antitrust suits accusing the private equity-owned firm of organizing a massive price-fixing conspiracy to inflate rents across the board.

Beyond rent, the Biden administration or private plaintiffs now have credible antitrust claims against firms engaged in price-fixing in meat, hotels and large online sellers like Amazon. Corporations in a range of industries have made comments similar to those of Sheffield.

Alex Cisneros, an executive for Red Roof Inn, told a trade outlet that Red Roof Inn was using a software package called STR from CoStar to systematically hike prices across the hotel industry. “Red Roof’s franchisees for the most part are making more money with less occupancy,” Hotel News Now explained. “Red Roof is now providing more data to franchisees to educate and get them comfortable commanding higher rates.”

According to a lawsuit, an unnamed executive at Smithfield, a pork processor, summarized the advice he got from Agri Stats, a consulting firm that coordinates production in the industry, as: “Just raise your price.”

Rent, meat, oil and hotels are big sectors, so criminal activity in the form of price-fixing to boost profits should bust through the illusions economists have about how our markets really work. There are also a number of concrete steps policymakers can take to respond to this price-fixing.

The first is to arrest or sue the offending executives for criminal activity.

The second is to strengthen price-fixing and merger laws, allow more private class-action suits, force judges to speed up cases and increase the budget of antitrust enforcers to make collusion more difficult.

The third is to reform the Federal Reserve so policymakers there stop using macro-economic models that avoid considerations of profits and price-fixing.

And the fourth is, frankly, political. One key reason there is action on these schemes is because Biden has prioritized antitrust enforcement. He hasn’t put enough into antitrust, and he doesn’t talk about it very often. But he should, or else Americans are likely to fall into the trap of thinking that what is good for big business is good for their pocketbooks, when the opposite is so often the case.

[cerulity]

Making your own Home Assistant (theorising)

Disclaimer: This is all theory and speculation. I have not tested anything or made my own home assistant yet, I just looked around for libraries and hardware that are likely compatible. I have not fully tested the compatibility or quality of these, this is simply the first iteration of an idea I have.

I just got news that Amazon Alexa has lost 10 billion dollars because their business model failed. This makes me happy, and has also made me realise that you can make your own home assistant.

Here are some of the links to things (I am aware that some are amazon, but it's the most global I could find. I encourage you to find other sellers, this is just what you should need. If you find anything cheaper or more local to where you are, go for it):

Hardware:

Raspberry Pi 4: https://www.canakit.com/raspberry-pi-4-2gb.html (RAM requirements may differ, I may do testing to see what comfortably runs)

8GB MicroSD: https://www.amazon.ca/Verbatim-Premium-microSDHC-Adapter-10-44081/dp/B00CBAUI40/ref=sr_1_3?crid=3CTN6X9TJXRR2&keywords=microsd%2Bcard%2B8gb&qid=1699209597&s=electronics&sprefix=microsd%2Bcard%2B8gb%2Celectronics%2C91&sr=1-3&th=1

Microphone: https://www.amazon.ca/SunFounder-Microphone-Raspberry-Recognition-Software/dp/B01KLRBHGM?th=1

Software:

Coqui STT: https://github.com/coqui-ai/STT

Coqui TTS: https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS

If you have it set up correctly, you should be able to run both the STT and TTS in realtime (see https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS/discussions/904).

After all of them are set up, the only thing to do is bridge it all together with software. There are bindings to Rust for both Coqui libraries (https://github.com/tazz4843/coqui-stt and https://github.com/rowan-sl/coqui-rs), and all that's left to do is implement parsing.

The libraries can also be swapped out for different ones if you like. If you can find and implement a DECtalk library that works for the Raspberry Pi, you can use that.

If I ever figure out how to manifest this idea, I will likely make the project modular so that you can use whatever library you want. You can even fork the project and include your own library of choice (if you can bind it to Rust).

Go FOSS!

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Fostering Partnerships of Amazon:

Third-Party Sellers: Amazon sells the goods and provides a list of independent vendors in the marketplace. Building a Collaboration in Which Amazon Offers. Platform operations and consumer outreach, while vendors supply goods and frequently take care of fulfillment.

Affiliate Program: Through its affiliate program, which pays bloggers and website owners commissions for promoting Amazon products, the company offers incentives to both people and companies to increase traffic to its platform.

AWS Partner Network (APN): We have a network of technology and consulting partners who provide free service solutions and highly skilled service delivery methods for our cloud service, Amazon Web Services.

Amazon Delivery Service Partners (DSP): Amazon Partners With Independence Contractors Through Its DSP Program To Deliver Packages Expanding Its Logistics Network And Capacity.

Amazon Associates Program: Publishers, influencers, and content producers like using Amazon’s Associate Program to promote Amazon products and earn referral credits.

Retail Partnerships: Amazon offers retailers and brands the opportunity to sell directly on its site through programs such as Vendor Central Seller Central.

Amazon Prime Partnerships: To enhance the value proposition for members, Amazon works with content providers, including publishers and film studios, to deliver content through its Prime membership program.

Technology Partnerships: To give customers more alternatives and capabilities, Amazon partners with tech firms to integrate their solutions with Amazon’s services.

AWS Marketplace: To promote collaborations with software developers and suppliers, AWS provides a marketplace where users may find, purchase, and utilize software and services that are hosted on AWS.

Acquisitions and Investments: To increase its capabilities or penetrate new markets, Amazon makes strategic investments in companies or acquires them outright. This might be considered a partnership or collaboration. Read more...