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an OSS voice assistant that integrates with Home Assistant
I joined up in the early funding stages, but never followed through with a purchase, as it's just too expensive for what it is. And the actual release version was some boxy monstrosity, compared to the good looking alpha / beta prototype.
The googles & amazons of the world have no doubt discounted the hardware (and enjoyed much greater economies of scale, probably), in favour of that sweet, sweet data mining.
You can self host the software, however, and self build on Pi (or any hardware, really) from scratch or with one of the VM images.
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It seems I'm 90% of the way to full de-Googling and I hadn't noticed I was doing that.
I've no Amazon devices, no Samsung devices, it's a Google house.
But I've moved a lot of the thermostat stuff into Home Assistant so that it does awareness of the whole house.
Music has moved from Spotify and Google devices to Plex.
I'm really only left with the voice control from Google Minis and Nest Hubs, but increasingly I keep the microphones turned off and am using my phone as a remote... it's a bit like Star Trek "Computer, do this" but only after they tap their communicator badge, I tap the phone and say it and leave all the mics physically disabled.
But now I'm wondering, is there an OSS voice assistant that integrates with Home Assistant that anyone has used? My use of Google Home is secondary to Home Assistant at this point and only exists for the voice control... may as well completely remove the last things.