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At the end of 2022, Paulus Schoutsen declared 2023 “the
year of voice” for Home
Assistant, the popular open-source home-automation project that he
founded nine years ago. The project’s goal this year is to let users
control their home with voice commands in their own language, using offline
processing instead of sending data to the cloud. Offline voice control has
been the holy grail of open-source home-automation systems for
years. Several projects have tried and failed. But with Rhasspy‘s developer Mike Hansen
spearheading Home Assistant’s voice efforts, this time things could be
different.