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Voice and how it works (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 weeks ago by Squizzy@lemmy.world to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
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I am looking at getting the voice thing from nabu casa.

I have seen people mess witb nests and echos and similar products either through jailbreaking or full on board replacements and I am trying to pick a lane.

I just want to be able to do simple commands for now but if I got the premium it would sit in the comms cabinet floors away from me. Does it act as just a brain and I can attach any mic, echo, nest to the system after?

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[-] Squizzy@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I have it set up, just not for voice. I thought the system was a bit of a server/system to host some compute but appears to be just a speaker and mic.

[-] ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago

You need some sort of hardware that HA can connect to and use as a pipeline. The rudimentary one was an Atom M5stack Echo and it had a wakeword process on it that used openwakeword service on HA, and then shipped TTS and STT over the network from Piper and Whisper over Wyoming protocol.

That's a complicated explanation, but essentially you installed an ESPHome config on the Atom and it would find those services and then use it for spk/mic as a voice assistant pipeline. See https://www.home-assistant.io/voice_control/thirteen-usd-voice-remote/#installing-the-software-onto-the-atom-echo

Nabu Casa was putting out a voice satellite hardware, I'm not sure where that's sitting these days, they might have sold out of the production run. But there are a few others being built, you might find something that works for you. I think FutureProofHome youtube channel was coming out with one too.

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