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Why I built a TUI client for testing OVOS without a mic or speaker - and a few real bugs it caught along the way that no amount of log-tailing would have surfaced on its own.
OVOS STT, TTS, and translation servers now describe themselves over UTCP and mount an MCP endpoint. Any agent that speaks either protocol can discover and call them — no custom client, no wrapper code.
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.
ONNX, New Plugins, and the Road Here.
A recap of our visit to the fourth Dutch Speech Tech Day in Hilversum, the Netherlands
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.
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.
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