Honda Personal Assistant

by Honda

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"Hey Honda" — voice assistant in Honda e:HEV and e:NS models.

Hardware  ·  Included with vehicle

TL;DR

Best for honda EV / hybrid owners in Europe and Japan using Honda Connect. Pricing: Included with vehicle.

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What it is

Honda Personal Assistant launched on the Honda e in 2020 as a cloud-routed assistant. The 2024 update added a generative dialogue layer in Japan and Europe for free-form queries.

Best for: Honda EV / hybrid owners in Europe and Japan using Honda Connect.
Watch out for: Cloud-routed; market-restricted feature set; English / German / French / Italian / Spanish / Japanese well-supported, others limited.

Install / use

Included with Honda Connect / Personal Assistant equipped vehicles

What people actually do with Honda Personal Assistant-style transcription

The tool is the means. These are the jobs — each one priced at published rates, each one wired up on its own page.

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Features

Speaker diarizationNo
Word-level timestampsNo
Streaming / real-timeYes
Languages supported12
HIPAA eligibleNo

Honda Personal Assistant vs Whipscribe

FeatureHonda Personal AssistantWhipscribe
CategoryProductsTranscription APIs
PricingNot verified$6–$24 one-time packs (credits never expire) · first 20 minutes free
Speaker identificationNot verifiedNamed in the summary, key quotes and chapters
Word timestampsNot verifiedYes
StreamingNot verifiedNo
Languages1299
PlatformsHardwareWeb, API, MCP

Alternatives to Honda Personal Assistant

Frequently asked about Honda Personal Assistant

What do I need to run Honda Personal Assistant?

Honda Personal Assistant is hardware — a physical device rather than software you install.

How do I get started with Honda Personal Assistant?

There is nothing to install — Honda Personal Assistant is used in the browser. Create an account on the vendor's site and upload or connect your audio.

How many languages does Honda Personal Assistant support?

Honda Personal Assistant lists 12 languages.

What are the limitations of Honda Personal Assistant?

Cloud-routed; market-restricted feature set; English / German / French / Italian / Spanish / Japanese well-supported, others limited.

Who is Honda Personal Assistant best for?

Honda EV / hybrid owners in Europe and Japan using Honda Connect.

Is Honda Personal Assistant open source?

No. Honda Personal Assistant is a proprietary product. If you need source you can read and run yourself, the open-source tools in this directory are the place to look.

What kind of tool is Honda Personal Assistant?

In this directory Honda Personal Assistant is filed under automotive, voice assistant as a product.

What are the alternatives to Honda Personal Assistant?

There is a side-by-side page at /tools/honda-personal-assistant-alternatives comparing Honda Personal Assistant with the closest tools in the same category on price, platform and features.

Can I automate Honda Personal Assistant-style transcription without running it myself?

Yes. If what you want is transcripts rather than the tool itself, Whipscribe does the same job as a hosted API: submit a file or URL, poll a job id, pull the result as txt, json, srt, vtt or docx. $0.012 a minute — about $0.72 an audio hour — bought as credits that never expire. The automation recipes on this site show it wired to Drive folders, Zoom recordings, S3 buckets and no-code platforms.

How is Whipscribe different from Honda Personal Assistant?

Honda Personal Assistant is another vendor's product; Whipscribe is a per-minute transcription service. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and never used for training, and every job returns five formats plus an AI summary, quotes and topics. The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export.

What does transcription cost if I use Whipscribe instead of Honda Personal Assistant?

$0.012 a minute — about $0.72 an audio hour — bought as credits that never expire. There is no subscription and no monthly minimum: a 3-hour recording is about $2.16, a thousand-hour archive is about $720 once. The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export, so you can see what your recording holds before paying anything.

Where is the Honda Personal Assistant category heading?

Three things are moving across the whole speech-to-text market right now: summaries, action items and speaker insights generated on top of the transcript rather than sold separately; private, secured deployment where the audio never leaves a boundary you control; and agent access — transcription exposed as a tool that Claude, Cursor or a workflow runner can call directly. Whipscribe ships all three today: per-job insights, our own servers, and an MCP server.

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