I wish Snips.ai were still around. They had a great system that you could install on a Raspberry Pi and recognised phrases were broadcast as JSON over MQTT to allow automatons to be executed. It was very manual, in that other services needed to be running to parse custom commands etc, but it could be used to control Home Assistant.<p>It got bought by Sonos and mothballed.[0]<p>[0] <a href="https://investors.sonos.com/news-and-events/investor-news/latest-news/2019/Sonos-Announces-Acquisition-of-Snips/default.aspx" rel="nofollow">https://investors.sonos.com/news-and-events/investor-news/la...</a>