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Boring installs, now on macOS: ovos-installer supports Intel + Apple Silicon
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Boring installs, now on macOS: ovos-installer supports Intel + Apple Silicon

ovos-installer can now deploy OpenVoiceOS on macOS (Intel and Apple Silicon) using launchd + virtualenv. Here’s the boring (good) path to a working OVOS stack on your Mac.

Gaëtan Trellu
Gaëtan TrelluMarch 5, 2026
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By JarbasAl

Bringing Real-Time Offline Speech Recognition to OpenVoiceOS

ONNX, New Plugins, and the Road Here.

By Timon van Hasselt

OpenVoice OS @ Speechday 2026

A recap of our visit to the fourth Dutch Speech Tech Day in Hilversum, the Netherlands

By Peter Steenbergen

Voice: 5× Faster Than Typing and ready for the AI era

We still type, click, and scroll, even though speaking is the fastest, most natural interface humans have ever had. Voice isn’t a gimmick. It’s the interface AI has been waiting for.

By JarbasAl

OVOS & HiveMind in the Manufacturing Industry

The COALA and WASABI EU projects have built an entire industrial voice-assistant framework around OVOS + HiveMind, integrating them with their own tools, UI, and conversation engines.

By JarbasAl

Introducing the First Phonemizer for Barranquenho

Today marks an exciting milestone for linguistic preservation! We're thrilled to announce the development of the very first phonemizer for Barranquenho, a truly unique Ibero-Romance language spoken in the Portuguese municipality of Barrancos.

By JarbasAl

Cloning Voices for Endangered Languages: Building a Text-to-Speech Model for Asturian and Aragonese

Have you ever wanted to hear a computer speak in an accent you love, or in a language that's rarely supported by big tech? Today we’re releasing new experimental Text-to-Speech models for Asturian (ast) and Aragonese (an), two beautiful minority Romance language spoken by communities who almost never get access to modern speech technology.

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