Family Tree
- mycroft-core created
- neon-core forked from mycroft-core
- chatterbox forked from mycroft-core (closed source)
- mycroft-lib forked from mycroft-core to become a library, it is only a properly packaged mycroft-core
- chatterbox rewritten to use mycroft-lib internally, no longer a hard fork
- neon-core rewritten to use mycroft-lib internally, no longer a hard fork
- mycroft-lib renamed to HolmesIV to avoid trademark issues
- HolmesV created to use HolmesIV internally, HolmesV gets features and HolmesIV bug fixes only
- chatterbox updated to HolmesV
- neon-core updated to HolmesV
- HolmesIV+HolmesV abandoned, chatterbox focus on closed source product
- ovos-core forked from HolmesV
- neon-core updated to ovos-core
- mycroft-dinkum forked from mycroft-core
Events timeline
- Aug 2015 - MycroftAI kickstarter launch
- Feb 2016 - MycroftAI Mimic TTS released
- May 2016 - mycroft-core repositories made public under GPL
- Jun 2016 - @Aix releases MycroftAI gnome shell extension
- Jun 2016 - @Aix becomes a contributor on the desktop-integration team
- Aug 2016 - Steve Penrod becomes MycroftAI CTO
- ??? 2016 - NeonGecko begins working with Mycroft AI
- Jan 2017 - @Aix release MycrofAI plasmoid for KDE Plasma desktop
- Mar 2017 - @Aix incubates Mycroft plasmoid project under KDE
- Apr 2017 - @JarbasAI forks
mycroft-core
as jarbas-core
- May 2017 - @JarbasAI becomes a
mycroft-core
contributor
- Sep 2017 - MycroftAI Mark 1 released / mycroft kickstarter campaign fullfilled
- Sep 2017 - @Aix joins Blue Systems to work on MycroftAI and Plasma integration projects
- Sep 2017 -
jarbas-core
tacotron TTS integration added
- Aug 2017 - MycroftAI starts supporting KDE plasmoid project and installers
- Oct 2017 -
mycroft-core
relicensed as Apache 2.0
- Nov 2017 - @Aix becomes a
mycroft-core
contributor
- Dec 2017 -
jarbas-core
abandoned
- ??? 2017 - Neon AI forks
mycroft-core
as neon-core
to remove dependency on MycroftAI servers and work on other features
- Jan 2018 - initial release of personal-backend, reverse engineered MycroftAI backend by @JarbasAI, licensed as Apache 2.0
- Jan 2018 - MycroftAI mark 2 kickstarter launch
- Jul 2018 - personal-backend added to MycroftAI Roadmap
- Aug 2018 - MycroftAI Mimic2 TTS based on tacotron released
- Sep 2018 - Mycroft-GUI was created by collaboration between MycroftAI, Blue Systems based on KDE frameworks, maintained by @Aix
- Oct 2018 - @j1nx creates "MycroftOS", the first version of what will eventually become the OpenVoiceOS smart speaker
- Jan 2019 - @JarbasAI personal-backend implementation adopted by MycroftAI
- Mar 2019 - MycroftAI mark 2 completely redesigned and based on different hardware
- Apr 2019 - Steve Penrod and @JarbasAI create lingua-franca under MycroftAI with @JarbasAI as maintainer
- ??? 2019 - @JarbasAI partners with NeonAI to maintain
neon-core
- Jul 2019 - steve penrod leaves MycroftAI
- Jul 2019 - Chatterbox kickstarter launched by @JarbasAI
- Sep 2019 - Mycroft on Plasma Automobile Demo at Akademy 2019 by @aix
- Oct 2019 - Official MycroftAI backend open sourced, licensed as AGPL
- Dec 2019 - @Chance joins
lingua-franca
as a maintainer
- Dec 2019 - Chatterbox released (closed source) / kickstarter campaign fullfilled
- Dec 2019 - MycroftAI starts to work on Kivy based UI
- ??? 2020 - MycroftAI starts neglecting community contributions
- Mar 2020 - MycroftAI abandons personal-backend
- Mar 2020 - Michael Lewis becomes MycroftAI CEO
- May 2020 - @JarbasAI and @AIX partner up to create a VOIP skill
- Sep 2020 - Community takes stand against reimplementation of GUI using Kivy
- Oct 2020 - Kivy has been dropped in support for QT Mycroft-GUI
- Oct 2020 - @JarbasAI, @AIX and @j1nx form OpenVoiceOS community project around
mycroft-core
- Oct 2020 - ovos-utils transferred from @Jarbasai to OVOS and renamed from
jarbas-utils
- ??? 2020 - Chatterbox forks
mycroft-core
as mycroft-lib
(open source)
- ??? 2020 -
mycroft-lib
reorganizes mycroft
imports cleanly separating each service
- ??? 2020 - Chatterbox (closed source) recreated on top of
mycroft-lib
- ??? 2020 -
neon-core
recreated on top of mycroft-lib
- Oct 2020 - MycroftOS renamed to OpenVoiceOS - Mycroft Edition due to trademark issues
- ??? 2020 - @JarbasAI leaves
lingua-franca
- ??? 2020 - @Chance joins OpenVoiceOS
- Nov 2020 - @Jarbas gives a talk about translating mycroft for collectivat Jornades de tecnologies lingüístiques lliures en català
- Dec 2020 - ovos-ww-plugin-pocketsphinx released
- Dec 2020 - ovos-ww-plugin-snowboy released
- Dec 2020 - ovos-ww-plugin-precise released
- Dec 2020 - ovos-stt-plugin-vosk released
- Dec 2020 - ovos-stt-plugin-chromium released
- Jan 2021 - ovos-plugin-manager released
- Jan 2021 - personal-backend adopted by OpenVoiceOS, original repo unarchived and ownership transferred
- Jan 2021 - Mycroft embedded shell adopted by OpenVoiceOS and renamed to ovos-shell
- Jan 2021 - skill-ovos-setup forked from Mycroft to replace pairing
- Jan 2021 - ovos-skill-manager released to support more skill Marketplaces
- Feb 2021 - skill-ovos-stop forked from Mycroft
- Mar 2021 - skill-ovos-common-play forked from Mycroft
- Mar 2021 - MycroftAI mark 2 dev kits start shipping
- Apr 2021 - OpenVoiceOS adopts
mycroft-lib
instead of mycroft-core
- ??? 202? -
mycroft-lib
renamed to HolmesIV to avoid trademark issues
- Apr 2021 - ovos-workshop released, bringing OVOS features to individual skills
- May 2021 - chatterbox forks
lingua-franca
as lingua-nostra
- May 2021 . OpenVoiceOS deprecates
mycroft-lib
and adopts HolmesIV
- Jun 2021 - ovos-tts-plugin-espeakNG released
- Jun 2021 - ovos-tts-plugin-mimic released
- Jun 2021 - ovos-tts-plugin-mimic2 released
- Jun 2021 - ovos-tts-plugin-pico released
- Aug 2021 - ovos-tts-plugin-google-tx released
- Aug 2021 - ovos-ww-plugin-vosk released
- Aug 2021 - precise-lite forked from Mycroft, adding tflite support
- Aug 2021 - ovos-ww-plugin-precise-lite released
- Aug 2021 - ovos-ww-plugin-nyumaya released
- Aug 2021 - precise-lite-models start being shared
- Aug 2021 - skill-ovos-volume released
- Sep 2021 - VocalFusionDriver released by OVOS to support the mk2
- Sep 2021 - ovos-tts-plugin-SAM released
- Sep 2021 - backend made optional in
HolmesIV
- Sep 2021 - msm made optional in
HolmesIV
- Oct 2021 - "instant_listen" introduced in
HolmesIV
- Oct 2021 -
HolmesIV
abandoned by chatterbox
- Oct 2021 -
lingua-nostra
abandoned by chatterbox
- Oct 2021 - OpenVoiceOS forks
HolmesIV
as ovos-core
- Oct 2021 -
ovos-core
becomes XDG compliant
- Oct 2021 -
neon-core
deprecates HolmesIV
and adopts ovos-core
- Oct 2021 - skill-ovos-common-play deprecated in favor of OCP
- ??? 2021 - @Chance leaves
lingua-franca
- Nov 2021 - ovos-plugin-manager released
- Nov 2021 - skill-ovos-timer forked from Mycroft
- Nov 2021 - skill-ovos-homescreen forked from Mycroft
- Nov 2021 - @JarbasAI leaves chatterbox
- Nov 2021 -
ovos-core
version 0.0.1 released
- Nov 2021 - ovos-utils adopted in
ovos-core
- Nov 2021 - ovos-plugin-manager adopted in
ovos-core
- Nov 2021 - multiple wake words support added
- Nov 2021 - installable skills (setup.py) support added
- Nov 2021 - ovos-PHAL released (mycroft compatible)
- Nov 2021 - skill-ovos-hello-world forked from Mycroft
- Nov 2021 - skill-ovos-naptime forked from Mycroft
- ??? - @NeonDaniel joins OpenVoiceOS
- ??? 2021 - NeonAI adopts ovos-shell
- Dec 2021 - ovos-PHAL-plugin-mk1 released
- Dec 2021 - skill-ovos-fallback-unknown forked from Mycroft
- Dec 2021 - skill-ovos-weather forked from Mycroft
- Dec 2021 - skill-ovos-common-query forked from Mycroft
- Dec 2021 - skill-ovos-application-launcher released
- Jan 2022 - OpenVoiceOS forks lingua-franca
- ??? 2022 - OpenVoiceOS starts development in the open via matrix chat
- Feb 2022 - OCP released as an audio plugin (mycroft compatible)
- Feb 2022 - PHAL replaces
mycroft.client.enclosure
in ovos-core
- Feb 2022 - skill-ovos-date-time forked from Mycroft
- Mar 2022 - Fallback STT support added
- Mar 2022 - VAD plugins support added
- Mar 2022 - ovos-vad-plugin-webrtcvad released
- Mar 2022 - ovos-vad-plugin-silero released
- Mar 2022 - OCP adopted in
ovos-core
as default media handler
- Mar 2022 - ovos-PHAL-plugin-mk2 released
- Mar 2022 - ovos-PHAL-plugin-respeaker-2mic released
- Mar 2022 - ovos-PHAL-plugin-respeaker-4mic released
- ??? 2022 - OpenVoiceOS starts releasing buildroot images for rpi4 and Mark 2
- ??? 2022 - OpenVoiceOS starts releasing manjaro images for rpi4 and Mark 2
- Apr 2022 - ovos-stt-http-server released
- Apr 2022 - ovos-stt-plugin-server released
- May 2022 - ovos-tts-plugin-beepspeak forked from chatterbox
- May 2022 - ovos-tts-plugin-marytts released
- May 2022 - ovos-tts-plugin-polly forked from chatterbox
- May 2022 - ovos-translate-server released
- May 2022 -
ovos-core
version 0.0.3 released
- May 2022 - MycroftAI founders resign
- Jun 2022 - ovos-config adopted in
ovos-core
- Jun 2022 - skill-ovos-alarm forked from Mycroft
- Jun 2022 - skill-ovos-qml-camera forked from Mycroft
- Jun 2022 - Plasma Bigscreen drops mycroft-core in favor of ovos-core version 0.0.4 (alpha)
- Jul 2022 - MycroftAI starts work on mycroft-dinkum behind the scenes, a replacement/rewrite of mycroft-core
- Jul 2022 - ovos-tts-plugin-mimic3 forked from Mycroft
- Jul 2022 - skill-homescreen-lite released
- Aug 2022 - padacioso transfered from @JarbasAi to OVOS
- Aug 2022 - adopt
padacioso
as a optional padatious
alternative to avoid libfann (LGPL)
- Aug 2022 -
ovos-core
version 0.0.4 released
- Aug 2022 - experimental support for "continuous_listening" and "hybrid_listening" added
- Sep 2022 - MycroftAI Mimic3 TTS released, AGPL licensed
- Sep 2022 . MycroftAI Mark 2 starts shipping
- Sep 2022 - skill-ovos-news transferred from @JarbasAl to OVOS
- Oct 2022 - ovos-backend-manager UI released
- Oct 2022 - ovos-stt-plugin-whispercpp released
- Oct 2022 - new
ask_yesno
parser added
- Oct 2022 - ovos-backend-client adopted by
ovos-core
, selectable backend support added (offline, personal, selene)
- Oct 2022 - ovos-tts-plugin-mimic3-server released
- Oct 2022 - mycroft.blue-systems.com mimic 3 public server added
- Oct 2022 - mimic3.ziggyai.online mimic 3 public server added
- Oct 2022 - @aix talks about OVOS in KDE Akademy
- Oct 2022 - skill-ovos-soundcloud transferred from @JarbasAl to OVOS
- Oct 2022 - skill-ovos-youtube transferred from @JarbasAl to OVOS
- ??? 2022 - mycroft-dinkum source code made public, Apache2 licensed
- ??? 2022 - Extremely negative feedback from developer community, several key members annouce no intention to support mycroft-dinkum
- ??? 2022 - NeonAI starts release NeonOS images for the Mark 2
- Nov 2022 -
ovos-core
version 0.0.5 released
- Nov 2022 - MycroftAI staff lay off, only a skeleton crew remaining
- Nov 2022 - ovos-bus-client forked from Mycroft
- Nov 2022 - tts.smartgic.io/mimic3 public Mimic3 server added
- Dec 2022 - Home Assistant PHAL plugin initial release by @AIX , exposes HA devices to the messagebus
- Dec 2022 - skill-ovos-youtube-music transferred from @JarbasAl to OVOS
- Dec 2022 - skill-ovos-bandcamp transferred from @JarbasAl to OVOS
- Jan 2023 -
ovos-core
version 0.0.6 released
- Jan 2023 - negative user feedback from the community for Mark 2, lots of bugs and missing features
- Jan 2023 - "fallback" wake word support added to
ovos-plugin-manager
- Jan 2023 - skill-ovos-local-media released
- Jan 2023 - ChatGPT skill released
- Feb 2023 -
ovos-config
cli tool by community member @sgee released
- Feb 2023 - ovos-solver-plugin-aiml released
- Feb 2023 - ovos-solver-plugin-rivescript released
- Feb 2023 - skill-ovos-somafm transferred from @JarbasAl to OVOS
- Feb 2023 - MycroftAI partners up with NeonAI to maintain mycroft-core(?)
- Mar 2023 - Mimic3 TTS public servers become default OVOS voice (alan pope)
- Mar 2023 -
ovos-core
version 0.0.7 released
- Mar 2023 - Fundraiser to form OpenVoiceOS V.z.w. (Dutch: "Vereninging zonder winstoogmerk") completed in a couple days
- Mar 2023 - First stretch goal of fundraiser reached and second stretch goal announced
- Mar 2023 - raspbian-ovos images start being released, maintained by community member @builderjer
- Mar 2023 - community docs start being maintained by community members
- Mar 2023 - ovos-ww-plugin-openWakeWord released, maintained by author @dscripka
- Mar 2023 - skill-ovos-icanhazdadjokes transferred from @JarbasAl to OVOS
- Mar 2023 - ovos-skill-alerts forked from Neon, maintained by community member @sgee
- Apr 2023 -
ovos-core
splits ovos-audio
, ovos-listener
, ovos-gui
and ovos-bus
into their own packages
- Apr 2023 - @Aix leaves OpenVoiceOS
- Apr 2023 - OpenVoiceOS stops releasing manjaro based images
- Apr 2023 - ovos-stt-plugin-fasterwhisper released
- Apr 2023 - ovos-tts-plugin-piper released
- Apr 2023 - precise-lite-trainer released
- Apr 2023 - ovos-vad-plugin-precise released
- Apr 2023 - ovos-dinkum-listener released
- Apr 2023 - ovos-translate-plugin-deepl released, maintained by community member @sgee
- Apr 2023 - mycroft-classic-listener released, to preserve original mark 1 listener
- Apr 2023 - skill-ovos-tunein transferred from @JarbasAl to OVOS, maintained by community member @sgee
- Apr 2023 - jurebes intent parser released
- May 2023 -
mycroft
import deprecated in favor of ovos_core
module for skills service
- May 2023 - stt.openvoiceos.org moves to whisper (small, cpu only)
- May 2023 - ovos-docker released, maintained by community member @goldyfruit
- May 2023 - Open Voice OS TTS/STT status page released, maintained by community member @goldyfruit
- May 2023 - First successful run of OpenVoiceOS on Mac OS using containers with ovos-docker
- May 2023 - ovos-docker-stt STT containers released, maintained by community member @goldyfruit
- May 2023 - ovos-microphone-plugin-sounddevice released, which provides native Mac OS suuport, maintained by community member @goldyfruit
- May 2023 - ovos-persona alpha release
- May 2023 - ovos-audio-transformer-plugin-speechbrain-langdetect released
- May 2023 - ovos-skill-easter-eggs transferred from @JarbasAl to OVOS, maintained by community member @mikejgray
- May 2023 - skill-ovos-dismissal transferred from @ChanceNCounter to OVOS
- May 2023 - skill-ovos-dictation transferred from @JarbasAl to OVOS
- Jun 2023 - Home Assistant plugin starts being maintained by community member @mikejgray
- Jun 2023 - quebra_frases transferred from @JarbasAl to OVOS
- Jun 2023 - ovos-translate-plugin-nllb released
- Jun 2023 - fasterwhisper.ziggyai.online public STT server added (large, GPU)
- Jun 2023 - Home Assistant Notify integration released by community member @mikejgray
- Jun 2023 - First (and second!) successful run of OpenVoiceOS on Windows, using WSL2 and ovos-docker
- Jun 2023 - ovos-docker-tts TTS containers released, maintained by community member @goldyfruit
- Jun 2023 - ovos-tts-plugin-azure released
- Jun 2023 - ovos-utterance-corrections-plugin released
- Jul 2023 - mycroft-gui-qt6 forked from mycroft-gui at last commit supporting QT6 before license change to GPL (reverted shortly after)
- Jul 2023 - mycroft-gui-qt5 forked from mycroft-gui at last commit supporting QT5
- Jul 2023 - pipertts.ziggyai.online public TTS server added
- Jul 2023 - tts.smartgic.io/piper public TTS server added
- Jul 2023 - piper TTS public servers become default OVOS voice (alan pope)
- Jul 2023 - skill-ovos-spotify port of the mycroft-spotify skill by community member and original author @forslund
- Aug 2023 - ovos-translate-server-plugin released
- Aug 2023 - ovos-docker-tx translation containers released, maintained by community member @goldyfruit
- Aug 2023 - nllb.openvoiceos.org public translation server added
- Aug 2023 - translator.smartgic.io/nllb public translation server added
- Aug 2023 - adopt NLLB public servers as default translation plugin
- Aug 2023 - skill-ovos-wolfie transferred from @JarbasAl to OVOS
- Aug 2023 - skill-ovos-ddg transferred from @JarbasAl to OVOS
- Aug 2023 - skill-ovos-wikipedia transferred from @JarbasAl to OVOS
- Aug 2023 - ovos-stt-azure-plugin released
- Sep 2023 - skill-ovos-parrot transferred from @JarbasAl to OVOS
- Sep 2023 - stt.smartgic.io/fasterwhisper public STT server (large, GPU)
- Sep 2023 - GUI fully functional with ovos-docker containers
- Sep 2023 - persona-server alpha version released
- Sep 2023 - ovos-audio-transformer-plugin-ggwave released
- Oct 2023 - ovosnllb.ziggyai.online public translation server added
- Oct 2023 - ovos-tts-plugin-mimic3-server deprecated
- Oct 2023 - ovos-PHAL-sensors released, exposing OVOS sensors in Home Assistant
- Oct 2023 - ovos-bidirectional-translation-plugin released
- Nov 2023 - Plasma Bigscreen moves to QT6 and explicitly drops support for OVOS
- Dec 2023 - ovos-installer first release! codename
Duke Nukem
, maintained by community member @goldyfruit
- Dec 2023 -
ovos-logs
cli tool by community member @sgee added to ovos-utils
- Dec 2023 - ovos-docs-viewer cli tool released
- Dec 2023 - skill-ovos-spelling forked from Mycroft
- Dec 2023 - skill-ovos-ip forked from Mycroft
- Dec 2023 - skill-ovos-wallpapers transferred to OVOS
- Dec 2023 - ovos-i2csound released by community member @builderjer
- ??? 202? - ovos-tts-plugin-mimic2 deprecated
- Jan 2024 - skill-ovos-boot-finished forked from Neon
- Jan 2024 - skill-ovos-audio-recording forked from Neon
- Jan 2024 - ovos-utterance-plugin-cancel forked from Neon, deprecates dismissal skill
- Jan 2024 - ovos-mark1-utils released
- Jan 2024 - Mycroft forums move to Open Conversational AI
- Jan 2024 - ovos-vad-plugin-noise released to support older platforms
- Feb 2024 - ovos-tts-plugin-edge-tts released
- Feb 2024 - Selene servers and Mycroft AI website go down
- Feb 2024 - skill-ovos-randomness released, maintained by community member @mikejgray
- Feb 2024 - OVOSHatchery created to incubate new projects
- Feb 2024 - @Chance leaves OpenVoiceOS
- Feb 2024 - skill-ovos-wordnet released
- Mar 2024 - Community Mycroft skills updated to OVOS under OVOSHatchery
- Mar 2024 - OVOS Skill Store released!
- Mar 2024 - Hatchery Skill Store released!
- Mar 2024 - First successful run of OpenVoiceOS natively on Mac OS with Apple Silicon
- Mar 2024 - ovos-installer second release, codename
Doom
supports Mark II device, maintained by community member @goldyfruit
- Apr 2024 - Mark 2 demo running Open Voice OS connected to a local A.I.
- Apr 2024 - First successful run of HiveMind Satellite on Mark 1 device
- Jun 2024 - First successful run of OpenVoiceOS natively on Windows: https://drive.google.com/file/d/171801mbhbpG79BvlOlUCxVyMPcDGgnbM/view?usp=sharing
- Near Future -
ovos-core
version 0.0.8 released