# SEPIA Open Assistant - Privacy respecting, self-hosted voice-control

**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/sepia-open-assistant-privacy-respecting-self-hosted-voice-control/28238
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**Created:** [12 June 2020 15:31 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/sepia-open-assistant-privacy-respecting-self-hosted-voice-control/28238 "2020-06-12T15:31:34Z")
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### Author: ![JGKK](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/jgkk/32/18515_2.png) [@JGKK](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/JGKK)
#### Post date: [12 June 2020 15:46 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/sepia-open-assistant-privacy-respecting-self-hosted-voice-control/28238/2 "2020-06-12T15:46:23Z")

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Hello @sepia-assistant and welcome to the node-red forum. I think we‘ve met before on the openhab forum 👋.  
A good place to post your news would be this thread:  
[https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ways-to-control-node-red-with-speech-commands/](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ways-to-control-node-red-with-speech-commands/)

A few questions i have 🙈:

- ~~What do you use as a wake word (precise, porcupine, snowboy?) and stt (kaldi, deepspeech, pocket sphinx?) components because i think thats one of the most interesting things for this community to know?~~ I see its kaldi and porcupine, or are there options? Which languages do you offer?

- Do you offer custom wakewords?

- Do you train your own domain specific language model for the framework you use to improve offline performance and accuracy?

- does it work completely offline?

- Do you offer built in slots for easy creation of things like timer intents or weather intents and what kind of nlu do you use for intent parsing

- Do you include a offline tts component that can be triggered via mqtt?

- do you have a setup for things like hotword coalescing for a setup with multiple satellites and a base throughout a house that overlap?

Welcome to the node-red community and good to see you here, Johannes

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