How Speech Recognition Is Reshaping Your Smart Home

In this episode of Smart Home with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore how speech recognition technology is quietly transforming the smart home experience. They drill into the specific case of the open-source voice assistant Rhasspy 3.0, which launched in May 2026 and now supports local processing for 97 languages. Lucas explains why the shift from cloud-based to on-device speech recognition matters for privacy, latency, and device cost. Luna brings up the surprising challenge of accent bias in smart speakers, citing a 2025 Stanford study that found a 23 percent higher error rate for non-native English speakers. The hosts also discuss how major platforms like Amazon and Google are responding, and what it means for the future of connected living. If you've ever shouted at a smart speaker or wondered why it mishears you, this episode has concrete answers. #SpeechRecognition #SmartHome #Rhasspy #OpenSource #VoiceAssistant #Privacy #OnDeviceProcessing #AccentBias #AmazonAlexa #GoogleAssistant #NaturalLanguageProcessing #HomeAutomation #Technology #ConnectedLiving #IoT #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #Podcast Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo