[$] Hopes and promises for open-source voice assistants

At the end of 2022, Paulus Schoutsen declared 2023 "theyear of voice" for HomeAssistant, the popular open-source home-automation project that hefounded nine years ago. The project's goal this year is to let userscontrol their home with voice commands in their own language, using offlineprocessing instead of sending data to the cloud. Offline voice control hasbeen the holy grail of open-source home-automation systems foryears. Several projects have tried and failed. But with Rhasspy's developer Mike Hansenspearheading Home Assistant's voice efforts, this time things could bedifferent.