SEPIA

Introduction: S.E.P.I.A. Open Assistant Framework

S.E.P.I.A. is an acronym for: self-hosted, extendable, personal, intelligent assistant. It is a modular, open-source framework equipped with all the required tools to build your own, full-fledged digital voice-assistant, including speech recognition (STT), wake-word detection, text-to-speech (TTS), natural-language-understanding, dialog-management, SDK(s), a cross-platform client app and much more.

The framework consists of several, highly customizable micro-services that work together seamlessly to form the SEPIA Open Assistant. It follows the client-server principle using a lightweight Java server and Elasticsearch DB as "brain" and a Javascript based client that works for example as smart-speaker, smart-display or full-fledged digital assistant app.

All components work on Linux, Windows and Mac and have been optimized to even run smoothly on a Raspberry Pi.

Out-of-the-box SEPIA currently has smart-services for: news, music (radio), timers, alarms, reminders, to-do and shopping lists, smart home (e.g. using open-source tools like openHAB), navigation, places, weather, Wikipedia, web-search, soccer-results (Bundesliga), a bit of small-talk and more. To build custom services there is a Java SDK and a code editor integrated into the SEPIA Control HUB web-app. The client can be extended with custom HTML widgets.

Components

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Installation

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