Te reo Māori Smart Home Voice Assistant
About this research
Project supervisor: Associate Professor Te Taka Keegan
Institution: Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato
Raumati intern: Keenen Wood (Ngāti Maniapoto, Tainui, Ngāti Koata, Ngāti Rarua, Ngāti Toa Rangatira)
Project Summary: This internship project will focus on the development of an openHAB plugin for the Smart Home openHAB system that can understand commands in the medium of te reo Māori. The plugin will be published as open source.
The raumati intern will be supervised by Associate Professor Te Taka Keegan, with assistance from Professor Mark Apperley and senior research programmer Peter Reutemann (all of University of Waikato).
The project is of an applied nature and will develop the intern’s experience with software development and smart home technology. The project will have a unique contribution to the creation and development technologies that work with te reo Māori, and ultimately support the revitalisation of te reo Māori and enhance its relevance for future generations.
For further information on openHAB: https://www.openHAB.org/ https://www.openHAB.org/docs/concepts/audio.html#audio-voice .
For information on Maven: https://maven.apache.org/
The internship focused on developing an openHAB plugin that understood commands in te reo Māori for smart home systems. Supervised by Associate Professor Te Taka Keegan and others at the University of Waikato, the project enhanced the intern’s skills in software development and smart technology. The open-source plugin contributed to creating technology supporting te reo Māori revitalisation and its future use.