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• 2023: Home Assistant's year of Voice - Home Assistant — TL;DR: It is our goal for 2023 to let users control Home Assistant in their own language. Mike Hansen, creator of Rhasspy, has joined Nabu Casa to lead this effort. We’re starting off by building a collection of intent matching sentences in every
• Removal of Mazda Connected Services integration - Home Assistant — Home Assistant is disappointed that Mazda has decided to take this position. We’re also sad that Mazda’s first recourse was not to reach out to us and the maintainer but to send a cease and desist letter instead.
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• Year of the Voice - Chapter 4: Wake words - Home Assistant — We’ve got great news: wake words are finally here! After 4 chapters, we now have the final building block for voice in Home Assistant.
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• ATOM Echo Smart Speaker Development Kit — ATOM ECHO is a Programmable Smart Speaker based on the M5ATOM design. With its compact form factor measuring only 24 * 24 * 17 mm, this speaker delivers impressive capabilities. Easily play music wirelessly using the BT capabilities of the ESP32 from your mobile phone or tablet.
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• Anker PowerConf S330 USB Speakerphone — A USB speakerphone with 4 high-sensitivity microphones to pick up all voices within 3m in super-high clarity.
• piper: A fast, local neural text to speech system — A fast, local neural text to speech system that sounds great and is optimized for the Raspberry Pi 4. Piper is used in a variety of projects.
• wyoming: Peer-to-peer protocol for voice assistants — A peer-to-peer protocol for voice assistants (basically JSONL + PCM audio)
• wyoming-faster-whisper — Wyoming protocol server for faster whisper speech to text system
• openWakeWord: An open-source audio wake word (or phrase) detection framework with a focus on performance and simplicity. — openWakeWord is an open-source wakeword library that can be used to create voice-enabled applications and interfaces. It includes pre-trained models for common words & phrases that work well in real-world environments.
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