rhasspy / rhasspy

Rhasspy (ɹˈæspi) is an open source, fully offline set of voice assistant services for many human languages that works well with:

Rhasspy comes with a snazzy web interface that lets you configure, program, and test your voice assistant remotely from your web browser. All of the web UI's functionality is exposed in a comprehensive HTTP API.

As of version 2.5, Rhasspy is composed of independent services that coordinate over MQTT using a superset of the Hermes protocol.

You can easily extend or replace functionality in Rhasspy by using the appropriate messages. Many of these messages can be also sent and received over the HTTP API and the Websocket API.

Rhasspy is intended for savvy amateurs or advanced users that want to have a private voice interface to their chosen home automation software. There are many other voice assistants, but none (to my knowledge) that:

If you feel comfortable sending your voice commands through the Internet for someone else to process, or are not comfortable customizing software to handle intents, I recommend taking a look at Mycroft.

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