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I've finally taken the next step with figuring out how to have some sort of decent voice support in Home Assistant. I mean, other than relying on Google Devices.

The picture below shows my completely ridiculous setup for voice recognition:

Total cost: $0, but that's because I reused all the hardware.

I got a RPI4 connected to an iLuv something or other Bluetooth speaker whose battery is completely shot, and a Blue Snowball USB microphone.

I'm running this on the RPI:

github.com/rhasspy/wyoming-sat

Janky as hell, but it works. As I see it, this is really a minimum setup for experimentation. The Atom M5 Echo does not hold a candle.

This is only the beginning.