What is the S.E.P.I.A. - Open Assistant application, how does it work?

According to the introduction of Florian Quirin, S.E.P.I.A. - Open Assistant is a Productivity app on the Android platform. There is currently a 0.21.0 version released on Feb 18, 2020, you can see the details below.

S. - Server based
E. - Extendable
P. - Personal
I. - Intelligent
A. - Assistant

What is SEPIA?

SEPIA is a personal, digital assistant and daily companion that helps you organize your everyday life, finds information, entertains you and can control your smart home. The SEPIA app is operated via a voice interface for natural language or conventionally via touch, text & swipe (in case you can't speak right now). Inside the app you can create your own, powerful voice commands and UI-buttons. In combination with many available 'skins' (look of the app) you can make SEPIA a truly individual experience.

Your own, smart control HUB for your home

Another special feature of SEPIA is that it respects your privacy by storing all data on your own SEPIA home server. The server runs on all popular systems (Windows, Mac, Linux), is 100% open-source (free) and can be extended with smart services and applications by you or the community. The installation usually doesn't take longer than 5-10 minutes (see below).

What else is SEPIA?

The SEPIA App is part of the open-source SEPIA Framework, which was created to connect all kinds of devices (mobile phones, PCs, web browsers, loudspeakers, Raspberry PIs, IoT devices, robots etc.) and to equip them with a voice interface. It is a powerful tool for programmers, makers and DIY enthusiasts that want to add new capabilities to their projects while staying in their own private network/ecosystem. Because all components can be individually adapted, there are no limits to your imagination.

More information can be found here: https://sepia-framework.github.io/

Do I need a digital assistant?

Of course everyone has to decide for themselves, but when used correctly they make life easier and are fun at the same time! :-) Here are a few examples to inspire you:

Hey SEPIA, ...
... good morning
... wake me up in 30 minutes
... set the lights in the bedroom to 50%
... start my wake-up radio
... show me tech news
... how long does it take to get to work by car?
... remind me at 2 p.m. to ask my colleague for his cocktail recipe
... put pills for my headache on my shopping-list
... create new project to-do list
... set write a blog article on my project list
... how's the weather today?
... what is Culebra?
... show me pictures of Culebra
... search the web for flights to Culebra

NOTE: Currently SEPIA can speak German and English and services like news are optimized for German. Feel free to edit the news outlets list for your country and contribute to SEPIA via GitHub :-)

Why SEPIA?

- 100% free and open-source
- No advertising!
- All data stored by SEPIA is located on your own server.
- Use SEPIA via browser, mobile app or DIY homemade device and access your data from anywhere.
- SEPIA was created with love for detail and will be constantly improved by a small, motivated team.
- The framework can be extended by everybody

PLEASE NOTE:

To be fully functional this app needs its own SEPIA Server! The server runs on every common operating system and can be installed quickly (5-10min, recommended: Raspberry Pi 3). A detailed description can be found here:

https://medium.com/sepia-framework/hosting-your-own-private-virtual-assistant-533b86553d63

Additional info: https://github.com/SEPIA-Framework/sepia-docs

Since SEPIA is still at the beginning of it's journey there might be missing descriptions here and there or you might encounter smaller bugs. Please don't be angry with SEPIA ^_^ but help to improve it and report it here:

https://github.com/SEPIA-Framework/sepia-docs/issues

Have fun and enjoy SEPIA :-)

- Support for SEPIA v2.5.0
- Improved Teach interface and weather service
- New skin and more TTS voices
- Increased security
- Improved intent-handling of inApp browser
- Fixes for GPS, event updates, speech recognition and gamepad support
- And more...