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I’ve just started searching for completely local voice assistants, and had only found Mycroft. Thanks for mentioning Rhasspy, that looks like exactly what I wa

I’ve just started searching for completely local voice assistants, and had only found Mycroft. Thanks for mentioning Rhasspy, that looks like exactly what I want (my search skills failed me yesterday). And I completely agree about HW costs. Just getting a decent mike and speaker peripheral gets you close to the price point of the echo dot. I’m curious how much researching you’ve put into HW options, and if you’re currently leaning toward any specific HW

Semaphor 5y ago
Rhasspy is amazing! It supports everything I want: central processing with several satellites, multi-language requests (while I want to keep everything English, I also want to request bands not in English), pre-defined commands, fine-tuning. For the microphone, I want to go with the ReSpeaker mic array in a case [0] for when I need multi-directional far-field recognition (living room, bed room), and probably the often recommended PS2 microphone otherwise (office, kitchen). Speakers will be normal PC stereo speakers in the kitchen, cheapest output I can find for all others (only the kitchen needs to play music while I cook). rPi 4 will run full Rhasspy (I currently have it on my home assistant pi, I’ll need to see about performance), my old pi3 is running it as a satellite for testing, I want all satellites to be on pi Zero 2 eventually (online discussions say the Zero 1 is too weak for speedy wakeword recognition) But I still need to do more evaluation and setup before I’m done, currently the satellite can do nothing but turn the office light on and off :D [0]: https://www.seeedstudio.com/ReSpeaker-USB-Mic-Array-p-4247.html https://www.seeedstudio.com/ReSpeaker-USB-Mic-Array-p-4247.h... edit: Just wanted to add that the reason I’m going with a Pi is not some specific love for it, but that it’s the platform I’ll have the easiest time finding support for online ;) It matters less for the processor, so if the Mini-ITX SoC’s I want become available again, and I can build my own NAS, then maybe Rhasspy will just run on that.
- ncallaway 5y ago
  That all makes sense. I have an old laptop which I'm currently using as a central server, and I _think_ will be powerful enough to run the server, so my main goal will be figuring out the satellites. Seems like just getting a pi zero is going to be the first main challenge.

Semaphor 5y ago

Rhasspy is amazing! It supports everything I want: central processing with several satellites, multi-language requests (while I want to keep everything English, I also want to request bands not in English), pre-defined commands, fine-tuning. For the microphone, I want to go with the ReSpeaker mic array in a case [0] for when I need multi-directional far-field recognition (living room, bed room), and probably the often recommended PS2 microphone otherwise (office, kitchen). Speakers will be normal PC stereo speakers in the kitchen, cheapest output I can find for all others (only the kitchen needs to play music while I cook). rPi 4 will run full Rhasspy (I currently have it on my home assistant pi, I’ll need to see about performance), my old pi3 is running it as a satellite for testing, I want all satellites to be on pi Zero 2 eventually (online discussions say the Zero 1 is too weak for speedy wakeword recognition) But I still need to do more evaluation and setup before I’m done, currently the satellite can do nothing but turn the office light on and off :D [0]: https://www.seeedstudio.com/ReSpeaker-USB-Mic-Array-p-4247.html https://www.seeedstudio.com/ReSpeaker-USB-Mic-Array-p-4247.h... edit: Just wanted to add that the reason I’m going with a Pi is not some specific love for it, but that it’s the platform I’ll have the easiest time finding support for online ;) It matters less for the processor, so if the Mini-ITX SoC’s I want become available again, and I can build my own NAS, then maybe Rhasspy will just run on that.

ncallaway 5y ago
That all makes sense. I have an old laptop which I'm currently using as a central server, and I _think_ will be powerful enough to run the server, so my main goal will be figuring out the satellites. Seems like just getting a pi zero is going to be the first main challenge.