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The OVOS architecture repository is a set of formal, implementation-agnostic specifications for how a voice OS's components talk to each other: specs covering the intent stack, the bus and sessions, the pipeline, audio, GUI, and media. Written in RFC-2119 language, so what counts as correct is written down instead of argued over.
We're rolling out AGENTS.md and SKILL.md across the OpenVoiceOS repositories, not to flood ourselves with AI-generated pull requests, but to put a capable coding assistant in the hands of every user who wants to customize their own assistant.
ovos-pydantic-models is a machine-readable specification of the OVOS MessageBus: hundreds of message types, each a Pydantic model with validated fields. Build a message and get it right, or receive one and check it, before a malformed payload becomes a mystery bug three services away.
Intent matching has always leaned on keyword and template engines. This R&D work explores semantic-embedding pipelines that generalize to unseen phrasings, alongside strong minimal-dependency baselines for constrained devices.
Custom wake words have always been gated by data, especially recordings of your chosen phrase. WakeForge, a research-grade training suite, tackles this with frozen self-supervised featurizers and a public Colab/Kaggle notebook, so any user can train a personal wake word for their own name, language, or secret phrase.
Three bridges expose any OVOS STT, TTS, or wake-word plugin as a Wyoming service, so Home Assistant's Assist pipelines can run the OVOS engine catalog. Deploy them with one docker-compose file.
The MoU asked for one agentic plugin. We shipped eight reasoning-loop architectures, six built-in toolboxes, and MCP/UTCP tool discovery, turning personas from single-shot LLM calls into local, private agents.
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