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Olsie

Olsie is a private family voice assistant. A small hub lives in your house and does the listening, understanding and remembering; satellite speakers (the Olsie Mini) live in your rooms. It knows who is speaking, what they are allowed to ask for, and what your family has told it before.

The promise

Local-first: your home keeps working even without our cloud. Built on open standards. Raw audio never leaves your house — and what Olsie remembers for you stays yours: encrypted per household, never shared, never sold.

Concretely:

  • Local-first. Wake word, speech-to-text and home control run on the Hub, in your house. If our cloud disappears for an hour - or forever - your lights, timers, and routines keep working.
  • Open standards. Olsie is built on the open smart-home ecosystem rather than a walled garden (see Attributions). Your devices are yours.
  • Private by architecture, not by policy. Raw audio and voice prints physically never leave the Hub. What Olsie remembers for your household lives on the Hub and in your household's own locked corner of the Olsie cloud — encrypted with keys that exist per household, access audited, deleted for good when you say so. See Privacy & Trust for exactly what crosses the wire and what never does.

Where to go next

  • Getting Started - from box to talking assistant in about 15 minutes.
  • Privacy & Trust - the part most companies hope you won't read. We hope you will.
  • API - household API for the technically curious.
  • Status - live service status.