"Managing Your Home with a Local Voice Assistant: Mostly Possible"

Home Assistant, a DIY home automation platform, has made significant progress in local voice control, allowing users to manage smart home devices with voice commands. While it has limitations compared to mainstream voice assistants like Alexa and Google, such as a limited verb set and hardware compatibility issues, it offers privacy-minded, locally run voice control. The platform's founder acknowledges the need for improvements in audio input, error handling, language support, and hardware compatibility. Despite these challenges, Home Assistant has made impressive strides and continues to evolve towards its end goal of providing a viable alternative to mainstream voice assistants.