Almond is a virtual assistant that lets you interact with your services and accounts in natural language, with flexibility and privacy. Almond draws its power from the crowdsourced Thingpedia, an open collection of Web and Internet of Things APIs. Anyone can contribute support for the favorite service, with few lines of code and a handful of natural language sentences.
This is the stable version of Almond 2.0. It includes stability improvements and bug fixes.
This release brings improvements across several skills, with in particular better support for automation, timers, and news.
This is the first Alpha release of the Almond 2.0 release cycle. It brings the latest version of the Almond platform, with several improvements across the board.
This is the first release to use the new Genie Toolkit as the core dialogue system, replacing both the Almond dialogue agent and the ThingEngine. Genie supports multi-turn interactions.
The app was relicensed to Apache 2.0.
Improved support for running in desktop environments other than GNOME.
It is now possible to control the computer volume using the commands of the speaker device ("increase the volume", "lower the volume", "mute", "unmute").
Launching apps from inside Almond is now possible when Almond is running as a flatpak.
The Almond platform was updated to version 1.8.0, bringing various improvements, primarily in natural language understanding.
The wake word is now "computer". This uses a universal model, as the previous "almond" model was not working well.
The wake word implementation changed, resulting in a leaner and more performant app.
The Almond platform was updated to version 1.7.1, bringing a various bug fixes across the app.
The GNOME runtime was updated to the latest version; this ensures that Almond receives all the latest security updates.
The Almond platform was updated to version 1.7.0; this brings in further improvements in robustness and natural language understanding.
Devices can now be referred to by name: users can ask to “turn on the kitchen lights” or “turn on the patio lights”.
Timers have been expanded, with a new frequency based timer: “twice a week”, “three times an hour”.
Users can now refer to data with the highest or lower value of a certain attribute, for example to ask for the “the largest files”.
The Almond platform was updated to version 1.6.1; this brings in further improvements in robustness and natural language understanding.
Questions from Almond that ask for an entity value (such as a language, country, company name, etc.) can now be answered with the entity name instead of ID.
The Almond platform was updated to version 1.6; this brings in further improvements in robustness and natural language understanding.
The Almond platform was updated to version 1.5; this brings in several bug fixes and improvements in natural language understanding.
The initial experience in Web Almond was improved to provide more suggestions to start.
The Almond platform was updated; this brings in several bug fixes and improvements in natural language understanding.
The UI was updated to comply with the latest version of the Human Interface Guidelines. In particular, the app no longer features an app menu.
Voice support was revamped and significantly improved, with a brand new wake-word model that should have fewer spurious activations. Almond now emits a sound when the wake word is detected, and correctly stops speaking if so instructed (e.g. by saying “cancel”).
It is now possible to update skills from the My Skills page (formerly My Goods).
The ThingTalk language was updated, with new and better natural language support; among other features, it is not necessary to use @-signs and quote marks in commands anymore.
First stable release of Almond Desktop.