If you’re using the Home Assistant voice assistant mechanism (not Alexa/Google/etc.) how’s it working for you?
Given there’s a number of knobs that you can use, what do you use and what works well?
- Wake word model. There’s the default models and custom
- Conservation agent and model
- Speech to text models (e.g. speech-to-phrase or whisper)
- Text to speech models


I’d like a PCB designed as a drop-in replacement for labotomized Echo or Nest devices so we can reuse their existing hardware and recycle millions of older units.
Boom!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0vjbdWdnaI
Exactly what you wanted for Google Nest devices, a simple drop in replacement PCB. Very cool!
That’s fantastic! I have exactly one of these Nests. I might give it a go. I hope the music playback can be resolved, and I’m crossing my fingers that a similar board is released for Echos. Thanks for sharing.
No worries, have a good one!
I would love this. Have several devices sitting waiting for me to figure out how to hack them