External Voice-Assistant?
Hello,
I saw you propose Piper and Whisper integration directly from HA but maybe it could be an option to use external local voice assist?
HA runs on Raspberry 5 on my side and no capacity to run LLM.
Hello,
I saw you propose Piper and Whisper integration directly from HA but maybe it could be an option to use external local voice assist?
HA runs on Raspberry 5 on my side and no capacity to run LLM.
The suggestion to run everything locally is mainly for faster response times. If the hardware can’t handle heavy workloads, Home Assistant can still use cloud-based STT, TTS, and LLM services. As long as the voice assistant can access them, it doesn’t matter whether they run locally on the same machine, on another device in your home, or as an online service—this is all handled through Home Assistant’s configuration.
Ok, it's HA-side what you mean. I will look.