Home Assistant Voice

8 points by SnaKeZ 1 year ago | 5 comments

robotfelix 1 year ago |

Very excited about this.

It represents the culmination of ~2 years of development by the Home Assistant team. They announced 2023 as the "Year of Voice" back in December 2022 [1] and during 2023 they made a lot of leaps forwards in the software, but there has been a lack of off-the-shelf hardware options.

Insta-buy for me!

[1] https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2022/12/20/year-of-voice/

gnabgib 1 year ago |

Relatively modest hardware requirement: Intel N100 or equivalent for Whisper Base (for large public dataset languages).

geerlingguy 1 year ago | |

I upgraded my Home Assistant Yellow from a CM4 to a CM5[1], and latency for voice commands was great, going from about 3-4 seconds to 1-2 seconds. Completely local, still.

[1] https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/home-assistant-yellow...

gnabgib 1 year ago | | |

Oh hey Jeff! They should probably include your real-world experience in the FAQ :D So a CM5/RPi5 at approximately half the score of N100 is usable?[0] Can't wait for the next stage.. a pre-fab HA-Voice/CM5 hybrid device (or perhaps more likely a Banana/Orange/Odroid variant).

Shame they're vague on the Whisper’s Small or Large models that require significantly more powerful hardware part (even if it's just preview edition)

[0]: https://www.cnx-software.com/2024/04/29/raspberry-pi-5-intel...