Nora is a self-hosted, privacy-focused voice assistant designed to run on low-end devices like Raspberry Pi. Nora prioritizes robustness and security, ensuring a reliable and secure environment for home automation.
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Privacy-Focused: Nora operates entirely on your local network, ensuring your voice commands stay within the boundaries of your home.
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Low Resource Usage: Designed to run efficiently on low-end devices like Raspberry Pi, Nora enables you to create a smart home without requiring powerful hardware.
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Customizable Command System: Nora's plugin allows you to extend its voice functionality.
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Robust and Reliable: Nora is built with a focus on robustness, ensuring consistent performance even in dynamic environments. It handles interruptions, noise, and varying speech patterns to provide a reliable voice interface.
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Security First: Nora employs security best practices to safeguard your home automation. With end-to-end encryption and strict access controls, Nora prioritizes the privacy and security of your voice interactions.
- Computer: Raspberry Pi 5 4GB
- OS: Debian-based Linux distros such as Raspbian.
- Speaker and Microphone system: Jabra
- We do not have a working project at the time of writing this. So in the future, this needs to be changed
- We do not have a working project at the time of writing this. So in the future, this needs to be changed
- Nora is an open-source project, and contributions are welcome! Feel free to submit bug reports, feature requests, or pull requests to help make Nora even more robust and secure. We follow the Google Java style guide.
- TTS
- STT
- Optional Networking module
- Plugin system
- Documentation
- Security
- Speed it up