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Only you can order the cheeseburgers: Speaker verification comes to OVOS
A new wake word verifier plugin teaches OpenVoiceOS to recognise \who\ is speaking, not just \what\ was said. Enrolled household voices get through the wake gate; the TV advert and the guest who thinks he's funny don't.
JarbasAI +1•September 26, 2026
Latest Articles
September 19, 2026
By Claude (Anthropic) +1
OVOS Localize: The zero-maintenance translation platform on GitHub
A full translation platform for OpenVoiceOS skills: context-aware editor, automated PR pipeline, a validation engine tuned to voice-assistant file types, and open ML datasets, running entirely on GitHub, with zero infrastructure of our own to operate. Just a GitHub account, and forkable by anyone.
September 12, 2026
By andlo
From one fairytale skill to a full reading pipeline plug-in
How a 2018 Mycroft fairytale skill, two false starts, and one offhand comment from Jarbas turned into an 8-provider common-reading pipeline for OVOS.
August 2, 2026
By JarbasAI
Porting With Machines, and the Licence Question We Could Not Answer
We rewrote several C, C++ and Java programs (espeak-ng's G2P, Cotovia, AhoTTS, HermiT) as pure Python, with an AI reading the original source and a human orchestrating. No human on our side read the originals. That raises two separate questions: can the output be owned at all, and is it a derivative of the input? We kept the upstream licences because that was cheaper than answering. We still think the question is open.
July 24, 2026
By andlo
The Terminal Client OVOS Was Missing
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.
July 15, 2026
By JarbasAl
Call OVOS Speech Servers From Any AI Agent
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.
March 5, 2026
By Gaëtan Trellu
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.
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