Hey Neon - Make me laugh - Mark II Voice Assistant update April 2023

Update Your Mycroft Mark II to the New Neon AI Operating System!

The April 2023 release of Neon AI Voice Operating System dramatically enhances skills and performance for Neon AI users.

Ask your Mycroft Mark II device: "Hey Neon, check for updates".

Neon AI is the most advanced Open Source conversational personal assistant.

The Neon AI private voice assistant’s latest skills now include:

• Home Assistant Skills: “Hey Neon, Turn off the kitchen light” - Control Lights, switches, media players. View cameras, sensors, vacuum status and more:  Ecobee, ESPHome, Google Cast, HomeKit, IKEA, Leviton Z-Wave, Lutron Caséta, MQQT, Philips Hue, Plex Media Server, Shelly, SmartThings, Sonos, Z-Wave, Zigbee. 
• Jokes Skill: “Hey Neon, Tell me a joke“ - A full library of jokes :-)
• Improved skill vocabularies and content for many skills: Alerts, Audio Volume, Restart, Shutdown, Stocks, Update and Weather Skills
• Improved performance and fixes: The April release provides faster responses and clearer speech.
• Create back-up Neon AI boot drives to USB or SSD media using your Mark II. "Hey Neon, Make Bootable Media" 
• Serious Storage! Mark II’s have their best performance with an add-on SSD memory. A 240GB SSD USB3 memory drive is only $39. Visit the Neon Square.com shop. 

Hints

• Improved skill vocabularies and content: Stocks, Audio Volume, Jokes, Alerts, Weather, Shutdown, Restart, Updates Skills
• “Hey Neon, play jazz”
• "Hey Neon, tell me a joke about programming”
• "Hey Neon, Create a support ticket" to generate and email a log of recent activity.
• If you need to, you can say: “Hey Neon, Restart"
• When you want to power down and unplug, say: "Hey Neon, Shutdown”
• To get advances before they are public, say: “Hey Neon, Enable pre-release updates”.
• To get the latest release, say: “Hey Neon, Run updates”

Resources

• Quick Reference & Quick Start guides. 
• GitHub documentation at: https://neongeckocom.github.io/neon-docs/ 
• Advanced Neon developer updates are posted on our GitHub Discussions page

Please visit our Matrix community to continue the conversation and read more about the Neon OS. 

Wishing you success with your private personal digital assistant,

Clary Gasper
Neon AI Projects
Clary@Neon.AI

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Voice Assistant Skills Alerts⚠️ Set a 5 minute timer Set an 8 AM alarm Remind me to take out the trash every Friday at 7 PM CaffeineWiz ☕ Tell me the caffeine content of Pepsi One Date and Time 📅⏰ What’s the date What time is it in Lima Peru Demo▶️ Show me the demo Stop Jokes😆  Do you know any Chuck Norris jokes Make me laugh Music🎵 Play jazz Play Mozart Stop Speak📢 Repeat 'Good morning, Mike' Say 'Goodnight, Gracie' Spelling📝 How do you spell aardvark Spell bureaucracy Stocks📈 What's the stock / share price for Microsoft What is Tesla trading at Translation🌍 Translate hello to Polish How do you say thank you in Ukrainian Weather🌡️ What's the forecast for tonight What is the weather in Seattle Wikipedia🌐 Check Wikipedia for cats Tell me about dogs Tell me more WolframAlpha🚀 Computation and Information  How far away is the moon What is square root of 64

User Settings Email Address📧 My email address is… Tell me my email address Language🌍 Change my primary language to Ukrainian I will speak to you in Spanish Speak to me in French Location📌 Where am I Change my location to Seattle Personal Information 👤 My name is… My birthday is… What is my name Time🕰️ Change my time format to twenty-four hour time Change my time format to twelve hour time Change my timezone to London Units📏 Change my units to metric Use imperial units Additional Settings⚙️ Change my wakeword to Mycroft Enable audio recordings Disable audio recordings Permit transcriptions Disable transcriptions Talk to me faster Talk to me normally

Neon System Commands About 🛈 How are you What can you do What is your email address When were you born Who are you Who made you Data Controls 🗑 Clear my user transcriptions Delete my profile Erase all pictures Device Control Center 🔧 Exit Restart Shut down Increase the volume IP Address🆔 Tell me your IP address What’s my IP address Speed Test 💨  How fast is my internet Run a speed test Support Helper🆘 Create a support ticket Create a troubleshooting package Updates🔄 Check for updates Do you have any updates Run updates Version Control🔃 Enable pre-releases updates Switch to stable updates What version is installed

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Community Collaboration 

Community Testers wanted: Visit the new Matrix chat room for testing requests. Developers working on advanced skills for the Neon OS will benefit from your testing and commenting on new features before release. To run advanced versions you can say: “Hey Neon, Enable pre-release updates”.

Community Developers wanted: Bounties available for skills, applications and documentation development. The Neon AI team is available to assist community developers.

Contact clary@neon.ai with your ideas and suggestions. 

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