Today, we are excited to announce the most major update to Homeway yet: Sage AI 2.0. Sage AI 2.0 is the most powerful AI Assist for Home Assistant, powered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google Gemini, ElevenLabs, and more. The best part – it’s still free.
- AI LLM Engine – Sage’s 2.0 AI engine uses LLM chat models like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude to fully understand your home. It can control devices, perform real-time internet searches, and offers customization options such as personalized prompts and memory features.
- Text To Speech – Sage’s 2.0 text-to-speech (TTS) offers lifelike, multilingual voices with expression for Home Assistant. Powered by ElevenLabs, Azure, Google, OpenAI, and more, Sage’s text-to-speech integration is the most powerful and lowest-latency solution for Home Assistant.
- Speech To Text – Sage’s 2.0 speech-to-text (STT) provides low latency, highly accurate, multilingual speech-to-text for the Home Assistant. Leveraging the most cutting-edge speech-to-text services, Sage 2.0 speech-to-text achieves a 5.7% WER rate.
Homeway’s 1 Year Celebration 🥳
Before we dive deeper into Sage AI 2.0, we want to take a moment to celebrate the progress of the Homeway community. It has been one year since Homeway was launched and has been an incredible journey. We have developed some fantastic features, including:
- Free, secure, and private Home Assistant remote access.
- Remote access for the Home Assistant iPhone and Android apps.
- Low-latency Amazon Alexa and Google Home integrations for Home Assistant.
- Secure remote access for any LAN-based web service, such as Node-RED, Unraid, AdGuard, Pi-hole, and more.
- Sage AI for Home Assistant
We are giving everyone 60 days of FREE Supporter Perks and raffling off FREE LIFETIME Supporter Perks for 20 lucky winners to mark this milestone!
What can Sage AI do for you?
Sage AI is an intelligent, customizable, and powerful like-like AI for Home Assistant like none other. Sage has full context of your home and internet search access, so it can tell you about your home, control your devices, look up information, set timers, create memories, and more. For example,
- Sage can use your location and customized preferences to curate a morning briefing that gives you the latest news, weather, and what’s on your calendar.
- Sage can retrieve facts and answer complex questions sourced with information from worldwide.
- Sage can reason over the state of devices in your home and control them precisely as you wish.
- Sage can be your friend to talk to, telling jokes and stories, giving advice, or just listening.
How can you customize Sage AI?
Customization is one of Sage 2.0’s most powerful (and fun) features. Sage offers over 60 lifelike multilingual voices that cover different accents, sages, and more. Using custom prompts, you can change exactly how your Sage AI thinks, speaks, and behaves. For example:
- Sage can be a light-hearted, casual friend who’s always ready to help with a soft voice and happy undertones.
- Sage can be a serious space ranger who takes and receives commands in a strict but playful military voice and tone.
- Sage can be your pen pal from a different country who speaks in a different accent and is there to help, chat, or catch up.
- Sage can be your home’s house elf, being humble, always listening to commands, and never complaining. 😉
How can you use Sage AI?
Sage AI’s powerful Home Assistant integrations can be used together to provide a life-like assistant experience or in pieces as you wish to power anything you can imagine.
- You can use your voice via the Home Assistant dashboard or a Home Assistant Voice Preview device. Using the end-to-end Sage AI pipeline, Sage enables life-like intelligent conversations with your Home Assistant setup.
- You can use text via the Home Assistant dashboard. The text-only Assist feature on the Home Assistant dashboard gives you light, fast control of your home.
- Use the LLM chat model, text-to-speech, and speech-to-text Home Assistant integrations in your Home Assistant applications, such as scripts, scenes, and more.
Conclusion
Our goal at Homeway is to build free, secure, and private cloud tools for the Home Assistant community. Home Assistant and its community are so robust and alive that there are always amazing ideas flowing, fun conversations, and helpful users in our Discord server.
We are over the moon that we have been able to work with the community and keep growing Homeway into the amazing project it is now. We look forward to next year and to seeing what excellent new features it will bring. Thank you for being a part of it!
