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Hello. I'm Mike Hansen, Voice Engineering Lead for the Open Home Foundation, working on voice for the open home. My goal is for everyone to be able to control Home Assistant with their native language in the privacy of their own home.
I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science and Cognitive Science from Indiana University in 2015, with a dissertation focused on computationally modeling how programmers read and understand code. I install Linux on anything I can, and use Emacs to write code in style like an old person.
Some of my projects
- Piper — a fast, local, neural text to speech engine
- Speech-to-Phrase — focused speech-to-text for Home Assistant
- Wyoming Protocol — peer-to-peer protocol for voice services
- HassIL — intent parsing for Home Assistant voice commands
- Rhasspy — voice assistant toolkit for many human languages