Actually.. Just tried it. I am on 2025.10, so newer than what was mentioned there. It still does not understand any better than from what I remember. Bummer.
But hey, at least the acknowledge that there's the need for something between dumb pattern matching and an LLM.
Holy shit YES!
That article is from yesterday, and the relevant section is: https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/10/22/voice-chapter-11/#improved-sentence-matching
Awesome to see improvements there. Thanks a lot for linking!
Oh wow, awesome!
Thank you for your sacrifice :D
While I don't like it, it's not hidden either:
https://bentopdf.com/privacy.html
There should definitely be an option to disable this for self-hosting, but if it's just a counter for how often each tool is used by all users combined... Eh...
(Stirling also has something similar)
Prisoner Of War:
Why not open a PR to make it configurable? The maintainer is super active and friendly.
Thanks for the recommendation! That looks interesting indeed.
This entire topic is probably a sinkhole of complexity. It's great to have somewhere to look for inspiration!
Yeah those are good points. Also noticed the CDN thing, it's a bit annoying for a privacy-first project... But should be an easy fix 😄
Stirling's backend is Java. So, yeah, heavy and slow sounds about right.
Ah, thanks for mentioning. Yep, they have a docker image; as mentioned, a nixpkg will be available soonTM; and frankly, you can just build / download the release artifacts and put them on any static host.
Please read the title of the post again. I do not want to use an LLM. Selfhosted is bad enough, but feeding my data to OpenAI is worse.
I feel like I'm going insane reading these comments about how difficult it is to read analog clocks, how it needs too much understanding of maths, how it takes too long,...
Can someone please confirm: you just look, for a fraction of a second, at the clock face and know the time, right?
Learning to read the clock was like... A couple of lessons and some homework in the 2nd grade, and everyone got it.