Comment on Self hosted hands free app

BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• HumanPerson@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That looks like a call center type thing. I’m more looking for “hey google” without (most of) the spyware.

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  • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So there’s an answer, and then there’s a problem.

    The easy answer is that Home Assistant has Voice Assistants now, and you can use Ollama, Whisper, and Piper to do that all locally.

    The problem is that it really only talks to Home Assistant, there’s no ability to have it search the web, or make a phone call, or really anything else outside of Home Assistant without significant addon stuffs.

    It also requires a reasonably significant amount of RAM on your computer to run the VM for Home Assistant while supporting Whisper and Piper and Ollama.

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