Hi Hunters, 👋 I want to share my Voice Assistant project Jaco with you. It's an Offline and Open Source Assistant for multiple languages following a privacy by design concept. Jaco was able to beat solutions from Amazon and Google in command recognition accuracy in different benchmarks. Currently Jaco understands English, German, French and since this evening also Spanish, but its extendable to further languages too. The Assistant uses a modular and container-based micro-service architecture for easy installation and to simplify development. It can run offline on almost any computer or a Raspberry Pi (tested with Pi4 and Pi3, but the later is a bit slow, you have to wait a few seconds until your request is processed). The installation does take about 30-60 min, depending on your hardware and internet speed. You can find the complete project and setup instructions here: https://gitlab.com/Jaco-Assistan... There’s also a skill store where you can share and download skills and I already did create some skills showing different possiblilities of what you can do with the Assistant. The skills are written in python, but you can use any language you like (just add a small python interface). You can give the skills full control over the hardware if you need to. Building a skill that does some heavy computations on a gpu? No problem. Want to control some gpio pins at the same time? You can run the skills distributed on multiple devices with almost no extra work. The skills are using a permission system (somewhat similar to android app permissions) so that the users downloading a skill from the store are always informed what resources it can access. You can find the skill store here: https://jaco-store.web.app/ And of course, the store can run offline as well:) To achieve high recognition accuracy Jaco uses the installed skills and automatically generates domain specific language models. This means Jaco does only understand words included in the installed skills, but you can add new words or skills within seconds (or minutes on a raspi). As long as you don't want to search special words on Wikipedia this shouldn't be a problem at all. If you have skills for light control and playing music, you just have to add a new weather skill and you can ask Jaco for tomorrows weather too. Why did I make this? Before creating Jaco I did use the proprietary Snips as offline Assistant. But it was bought by Sonos this winter and isn't usable anymore since then. So I was in need of a replacement. I wasn't satisfied with the alternatives existing at this time and started to try building an Assistant myself. While the program was working the performance was very poor and I did take a break from it. But then came the covid outbreak and my university was closed for some months and I had a lot of time to continue with the project. Now that the performance is quite good I wanted to share the project with others:) > What happens in your home should stay in your home < Check it out.

Are you going to "teach" the product more vocabulary?

Something that I think would be cool, is to have the possibility to interact with the Jaco main node from any web browser, something like a pure web browser satellite. What do you think of that? Is it planned?

Supporting Spanish too now:)

Is it possible to use it for profit? if I wanna include it in a product or is there a legal concern about this? Thank you