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+[#]: author: "Sourav Rudra https://news.itsfoss.com/author/sourav/"
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+An Open-Source Alternative to Google, Alexa, and Siri in Works for Home Assistant Platform
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+An open-source assistant to replace Google, Alexa, Siri?
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+![An Open-Source Alternative to Google, Alexa, and Siri in Works for Home Assistant Platform][1]
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+**Home Assistant** is an open-source smart home platform that focuses on providing local control and privacy to its users. It can run off a Raspberry Pi or even a local server.
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+They also have a subscription service for access to additional features such as support for Alexa and Google Assistant, which is managed by a company called '[Nabu Casa][2]'.
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+> 💡 The company is led by [Paulus Schoutsen][3], the founder of Home Assistant.
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+In a [blog][4] last week, Paulus announced **a new open-source project that aims to offer a voice assistant without an active internet connection** or any other big tech voice assistants.
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+So, an _open-source challenger to Google, Alexa, and Siri?_😲
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+Let's see what this is all about, then.
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+**What is it?:** This will be a part of the Home Assistant application and will offer the ability to run voice commands locally to control the connected smart devices.
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+Paulus also asserts that their most important priority is to support different languages, he says:
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+> 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.
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+To fuel this endeavor, the creator of Rhasspy, [Mike Hansen][5], has been roped in to make this possible.
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+For those of you who don't know, [Rhasspy][6] is another open-source software that specializes in providing a fully offline voice assistant that is backed by its community of users.
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+If you ask me, I feel that this feature of Home Assistant will be powered by Rhasspy, which is a good thing.
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+_Why reinvent something that already exists? It's better to improve upon it._
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+**What to expect?:** Initially, the voice assistant won't be able to do things you might expect. So, things like making a web search, making calls, playing voice games, etc., are a no-go.
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+What it will focus on instead are the **basics of what a voice assistant should be**; this was done to make sure that the work ahead of them was manageable.
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+They aim to start with a few actions and then build up language models around them.
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+In its current state, Home Assistant supports 62 different languages in its user interface. They plan to add support for all these languages with their voice assistant.
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+**When to expect?:** They have already started work on this by building a [collection of intent matching sentences][7] for every language.
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+What this means is that the community can contribute to the development of the voice assistant by adapting the commands for smart devices to their respective native languages.
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+They aim for a release sometime in **2023** and have mentioned that it will be the '_year of voice_'.
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+I think an open-source voice assistant that works offline can be a very useful thing to have; it lets you be free of any tracking from big tech.
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+💬 _With the added benefit of having a large community behind its development of it, what's not to like?_
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+via: https://news.itsfoss.com/open-source-assistant/
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+作者：[Sourav Rudra][a]
+选题：[lkxed][b]
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+[a]: https://news.itsfoss.com/author/sourav/
+[b]: https://github.com/lkxed
+[1]: https://news.itsfoss.com/content/images/size/w2000/2022/12/open-source-home-assistant-in-works.png
+[2]: https://www.nabucasa.com
+[3]: https://twitter.com/balloob
+[4]: https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2022/12/20/year-of-voice/
+[5]: https://synesthesiam.com
+[6]: https://rhasspy.readthedocs.io
+[7]: https://github.com/home-assistant/intents