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Rhasspy is amazing! It supports everything I want: central processing with several satellites, multi-language requests (while I want to keep everything English,
by 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 agoThat 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.