Stanford Open Virtual Assistant Lab (OVAL)

university

AI & ML interests

The mission of the Stanford OVAL is to create open advanced technology so developers can create robust, friendly, multilingual voice assistants cost-effectively. Our goal is to enable every organization to provide voice-based assistance to their services as easily as creating a website. We envision an open World Wide Voice Web where voice agents are created once and are accessible via every language and on every device.

We build LLM-Augmented Cognition Systems (LLM-CSys) that combine the expressive language skills of LLMs with the interpretability and reliability of software systems. We connect LLMs with databases, compilers, and executive functions to create assistants that are more trustworthy and helpful.