![]() The conversation integration is exposed in Home Assistant via a service call and is also available via an API to external applications or scripts. It will soon power the existing conversation integration in Home Assistant, allowing you to use our app to write and say commands. We started gathering these command sentences in our new intents repository. We need to be able to understand your commands and execute them. The most important part is the intent recognition and intent execution. Making each work in every language is a lot of work. Even basic functionality allows users to find things that work and don’t work, allowing us to address the direction if needed.Ī voice assistant has a lot of different parts: hot word detection, speech to text, intent recognition, intent execution, text to speech. With Home Assistant we prefer to get the things we’re building in the user’s hands as early as possible. Mike’s approach with Rhasspy aligns with Home Assistant, and so we’re happy to announce that Mike has joined Nabu Casa to work full-time on voice in Home Assistant. With Home Assistant we want to make a privacy and locally focused smart home available to everyone. This is going great as Rhasspy supports already 16 different languages today. Instead, his goal is to make it work for everyone. Rhasspy stands out from other open source voice projects because Mike doesn’t focus on just English. A project that allows people to build their own local voice assistant, which can also tie into Home Assistant. The most promising project out there is Rhasspy, created by Mike Hansen. And yes, you can use Home Assistant to send all your data to the clouds of Google and Amazon to leverage their voice assistants, but you shouldn’t have to give up your privacy to turn on the lights by voice. We worked with Stanford on their Almond/Genie platform, but it is a research driven project that never got production ready. We used to work with Snips back in the day, but they got acquired and shut down. With Home Assistant we’ve always been interested in voice. Voice has failed being a source of revenue, it has not failed its users. Instead, users mainly use their voice assistants to manage shopping lists, set timers, play music, and control their homes. The truth is that voice, as the next computing platform that drives billions of dollars of extra revenue, has failed. Google too, is reducing its support for Google Assistant as it’s trying to cut costs. Amazon is set to lose $10 billion on Alexa this year and is planning layoffs. If you follow the news, it might sound like voice assistants have failed. We think that we can achieve that by leveraging Home Assistant’s strongest asset: our community. And it’s our goal to support all these languages with voice. ![]() Home Assistant supports 62 different languages in its user interface. We are going to start with a few actions and build up the language models around that. No web searches, making calls, or voice games. To keep the amount of work ahead of us manageable, we’re going to limit the number of possible actions and focus on the basics of interacting with your smart home. People need to be able to speak in their own language, as that is the most accessible and only acceptable language for a voice assistant for the smart home. There are enough projects out there trying to create an English voice assistant. Our #1 priority is supporting different languages. The amount of work laid out for us can be summarised as follows: It’s a big and bold goal, but achievable given the right constraints. It is our goal for 2023 to let users control Home Assistant in their own language. We didn’t only reflect, we also announced our focus for next year: 2023 is going to be the year of voice. However, we already did that last month when we hosted the State of the Open Home 2022. Usually, the month of December is meant to reflect back. We’re starting off by building a collection of intent matching sentences in every language. Mike Hansen, creator of Rhasspy, has joined Nabu Casa to lead this effort. TL DR: It is our goal for 2023 to let users control Home Assistant in their own language.
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