News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

aquila416

Aquila Voice Assistant Test Suite for Home Assistant

Put together an extensive open source test suite for voice assistants. You can view it including current leaderboard at: https://git.cicero.sh/aquila/ha-voice-test-suite/Tests are reproduceable, with clear instructions on how to run them on your machine there.I only have a GPU with 4GB vRAM, hence only capable of testing the small LLMs like Qwen3 4B Instruct. Have Gemma 4 running right now,...

( Read More... | no comments | on HN )

Sophia NLU Home Assistant – On Device, Low Compute, No Internet, Voice Assistant

Sophia NLU is an on device, low compute, Rust based natural language understanding engine that acts as a conversation agent. It offers the fluidity of a LLM without the compute, requiring only 160MB of RAM, no GPU. Handles unlimited devices, multiple intents, ambiguity, contextual awareness, millisecond latency, doesn't connect to the internet, and never calls home.Upgrade to v1.2 just...

( Read More... | 1 comment | 2 points | on HN )