We’re excited to share some fantastic news — OpenVoiceOS (OVOS) has been selected to receive a grant from the NGI Zero Commons Fund!
This milestone represents a huge step forward for our mission to build an open, community-driven, and privacy-first voice assistant platform. With this support, we can accelerate our progress from beta to a first stable version under our OpenVoiceOS umbrella.
What the Grant Enables
With support from the NGI Zero Commons Fund, we’ll be able to:
Hire our lead developer to deliver on the first stable roadmap
Improve onboarding and usability for non-technical users
Expand language support and stabilize platform components
Enhance documentation for developers building skills and plug-ins
Real-World Impact
OVOS is already making a difference across Europe and beyond. It powers projects such as the Royal Dutch Visio Voicelab, bringing voice interaction to visually impaired users, as well as conversational assistants in nursing homes, manufacturing, and/ or multilingual AI initiatives.
This grant helps us strengthen that ecosystem — empowering developers, researchers, and users to shape the future of open, ethical voice technology.
Thank You 
We want to express our gratitude to the NGI Zero Commons Fund, NLnet Foundation, and our incredible community of contributors, volunteers, and users. Your support makes it possible to keep building a voice assistant platform that prioritizes freedom, transparency, and privacy.
Together, we’re proving that open voice technology can be trustworthy, user-owned, and truly free.
Stay tuned for more updates as we move toward our full first stable release!
NLnet Announcement NGI Zero Commons Fund OpenVoiceOS Project Page
Original blog post; OpenVoiceOS Receives NGI Zero Commons Fund Grant | OpenVoiceOS Blog