Anyone tried OHF’s ”Linux Voice Assistant” (experimental project) for Home Assistant by the Open Home Foundation?

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Anyone tried OHF’s ”Linux Voice Assistant” (experimental project) for Home Assistant started by Open Home Foundation’s lead voice developer?

• https://github.com/OHF-Voice/linux-voice-assistant

It is meant to run on Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W and similar hardware it is being developed as a replacement for his Wyoming Satellite project with this new project using the native ESPHome protocol on Linux instead to integrate with Home Assistant voice pipeline:

• Replace Wyoming satellite with Linux Voice Assistant OHF-Voice/backlog-issues#45

Reddit discussion including replies from synesthesiam (Michael Hansen) who is the lead "voice" developer at the Open Home Foundation:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1na1chk/new_wyoming_satellite_successor/

As I understand; it uses ESPHome’s API/protocol as a new cross-platform standard instead of the Wyoming API/protocol, and if also compare to ESPHome devices based on ESP32 this Linux derivitive allows for the use of much more powerful hardware will ”fully local assistant” with on-device TTS (Piper Text-To-Speach) and STT (Whisper Speach-To-Text), also will give you the option to use OpenWakeWord instead of MicroWakeWord, as well as run other heavier processes and services on-device, (such as maybe a Resonate server to capture and encode analog audio input from a Vinyl-turntable to stream to other Music Assistent clients). As long as they use the ESPHome API support it then more features could be added to this experimental OHF Linux Voice Assistent project without having to add changes in Home Assistant.

• https://github.com/esphome/aioesphomeapi

  • https://github.com/dscripka/openWakeWord

Note! To have a good experince with using wake words I also understand that really want a great far-field microphone array, such as the Seeed Studio’s ReSpeaker series which will provide a clean voice even in a noisy room far away from the microphones:

• https://www.seeedstudio.com/ReSpeaker-Lite-p-5928.html

• https://www.seeedstudio.com/ReSpeaker-XVF3800-USB-Mic-Array-p-6488.html

PS: FutureProofHomes also sells a dev kit where you can raplace their ESP32-based ”core board” with a pinned Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W for a nicer package:

• https://futureproofhomes.net/products/satellite1-pcb-dev-kit

  • https://github.com/orgs/FutureProofHomes