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You can now go to the integrations page and start the configuration flow.
## Language Support
Almond is currently limited to the English language. This is not a technical limitation but requires specialized engineering effort. Almond has currently no public timeline for adding other languages.
## Device Support
Almond is constantly improving. It does not currently support all devices, but we're working with Almond on improving this.

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layout: post
title: "Almond & Ada: privacy-focused voice assistant"
description: "Say Hi! to Almond, a privacy-focused virtual assistant and Ada, a voice assistant powered by Home Assistant."
date: 2019-11-14 0:43:02
date: 2019-11-20 0:43:02
date_formatted: "November 20, 2019"
author: Paulus Schoutsen
author_twitter: balloob
comments: true
categories: Announcements
og_image: /images/blog/2019-voice-assistant/almond.png
og_image: /images/blog/2019-11-voice-assistant/almond.png
---
TL;DR:
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[Almond](https://almond.stanford.edu/) is an open, privacy-preserving virtual assistant that is open source. With Almond, you can run a virtual assistant at home, that can tell you the news or control your house. It is powered by [LUInet](https://almond.stanford.edu/doc/genie-intro.md), a state-of-the-art neural network developed at Stanford. And it now works with Home Assistant.
The Almond team has updated Almond to make it aware of all the different device types in Home Assistant and allow Almond to control them. In turn, we have upgraded the conversation integration in Home Assistant to support Almond, allowing users to converse with Almond via the frontend.
The Almond team has updated Almond to make it aware of the different device types in Home Assistant and allow Almond to control them. In turn, we have upgraded the conversation integration in Home Assistant to support Almond, allowing users to converse with Almond via the frontend.
<p class='img'><img src='/images/blog/2019-voice-assistant/almond.png' alt='Screenshot showing Almond integration in Home Assistant.'>Screenshot showing Almond integration in Home Assistant.</p>
<p class='img'><img src='/images/blog/2019-11-voice-assistant/almond.png' alt='Screenshot showing Almond integration in Home Assistant.'>Screenshot showing Almond integration in Home Assistant.</p>
Almond is available to users today in Home Assistant 0.102. It requires an Almond Server, which you can either install yourself, use the new Almond Hass.io add-on or rely on Almond Web, a cloud version hosted by Stanford. By default, Almond Server will rely on a cloud version of LUInet, but it is possible to run it locally.
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Almond is gathering sentences that you want to use to control the devices in your home. We already have a basic set of sentences, but the more, the better. You can submit those sentences [using this form](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeStJfjvueNAiueRVmP47XALRaJlx7tttzJjRfVjX4J546-uA/viewform).
You are also able to help train LUInet directly by teaching it how to interpret sentences [here](https://almond.stanford.edu/developers/train).
You are also able to help train LUInet directly by teaching it how to interpret sentences [in the training console](https://almond.stanford.edu/developers/train).
## Ada
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Now we almost have all the pieces for a voice assistant built-in to Home Assistant, and so we decided to finish it off by introducing a new project called [Ada](https://github.com/home-assistant/ada). Ada integrates hotword detection and will route all data to the various integrations to provide a full voice assistant experience.
<a href='/images/blog/2019-voice-assistant/overview.svg'><img src='/images/blog/2019-voice-assistant/overview.svg' alt='Architectural overview of how all pieces fit together.' style='border: 0;box-shadow: none;'></a>
<a href='/images/blog/2019-11-voice-assistant/overview.svg'><img src='/images/blog/2019-11-voice-assistant/overview.svg' alt='Architectural overview of how all pieces fit together.' style='border: 0;box-shadow: none;'></a>
Ada is still very much in the beginning. We'll be working on improving it. If you have expertise in this area and want to help, please get in touch.
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With the current approach, some things will still run in the cloud, but the home data and control stays local. We will bring more things local when faster technology becomes more accessible or new projects emerge that can help with this.
We cannot wait until all the pieces are in place to run 100% locally. We need to help build the future we want to see.
We don't want to wait with integrating this until all the pieces run 100% locally. We need to help build the future we want to see.
## What's next?
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I hacked together a quick prototype to allow you to talk to Almond via a Telegram Bot! It's available as a [custom component](https://gist.github.com/balloob/d59cae89d19a14bcec99ce1bde05bd44).
<p class='img'><img src='/images/blog/2019-voice-assistant/telegram.png' style='max-width: 300px' alt='Screenshot of talking to Almond via Telegram.'>Screenshot of talking to Almond via Telegram.</p>
<p class='img'><img src='/images/blog/2019-11-voice-assistant/telegram.png' style='max-width: 300px' alt='Screenshot of talking to Almond via Telegram.'>Screenshot of talking to Almond via Telegram.</p>

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layout: post
title: "0.102: Official Android App, Almond, Scene editor"
description: "TBD"
date: 2019-11-14 0:41:02
description: "Download the Android app, install a private voice assistant and easy OAuth2 account linking."
date: 2019-11-20 0:41:02
date_formatted: "November 20, 2019"
author: Paulus Schoutsen
author_twitter: balloob

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