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just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Pico, Mary, and Google all run locally and off of CPU only.

I think all the rest require cloud accounts or acceleration hardware to work quickly.

I’m personally fine with Mary or Pico, but I know some people like the fancier ones.

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sxan@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Google? Have you verified that?

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- just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yes. Have a look at the docs: www.home-assistant.io/…/google_translate/
  
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  - sxan@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    The docs don’t say it’s completely offline. Can you turn off your LAN connection and it still works? Have you tried this? Or just firewall off out bound access to Google services?
    
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    Contrary to what the name suggests, the integration only does text-to-speech and does not translate messages sent to it.
    
    doesn’t say it doesn’t call out to Google services; it says only that it doesn’t use translation services. I didn’t see anything else that implies it doesn’t send data to Google.
    
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    just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    If it doesn’t require an API key in the config, it’s offline. My HA works totally offline unless I need to do updates, and it’s always worked for me.
    
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