openhome abilities
i develop custom abilities for openhome, a voice ai and smart speaker platform. abilities are modular, voice-activated features — essentially apps for a voice assistant — that users invoke hands-free on openhome devices.the openhome team selected me for their developer program and provided a hardware dev kit to build on.
building for voice
a voice-first platform is a distinct design challenge — no screen, no mouse, no keyboard. everything works through natural spoken language:conversational design
interaction flows that feel natural in speech, with clear prompts and graceful error handling.
intent handling
mapping spoken phrases to structured intents and pulling parameters out of natural language.
external integrations
wiring voice triggers to apis and services for real-world actions.
hardware-first testing
testing on the actual dev kit, not just a simulator, to validate the real speaker experience.
links
- platform: openhome.ai