![]() 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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