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Self hosting voice assistant (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Hi all, looking for my next major project/frustration. I've been forcing myself to learn the new AI tools and I think I'm ready for the next step. I'm familiar with image generation and I dabbled in a bit of chat bot stuff, but I think I'm ready.

I've read a few blogs but I want to find something that could work with my existing setup. My dream setup would be:

A voice assistant that runs locally, preferably dockerized, backup linux, and final option would be Windows, that can run a decent model and preferably let me train a custom voice for it.

I currently have:

  • Home Assistant set up already, I've seen the OpenAI integrations but would like to migrate off of those
  • Google Minis laying around, I'm willing to sacrifice one of them if it means I can use my own stuff
  • Spare 1650GTX GPU, I know not the best but hopefully enough to get it off the ground before deciding to go in on a larger GPU that would be dedicated to this

Needs/wants/nice to haves would be:

  • Basic chat functionality, what's the weather like
  • Play music from my plex or jellyfin server
  • HA integrations so I could say stuff like "Turn off the lights"

Sorry for dumping all of this, like I said I've seen blog posts around, some are doing parts of this, but I wonder if anyone has done something like this. I'm sure people have tried. Guides, jumping off points, even githubs/projects you know of would be helpful.

Thanks all!

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

There was Mycroft but it got killed by a patent troll although afaik you can still run it. OpenvoiceOS and Neon AI have picked up the ball.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Rhasspy. Idk if rhasspy3 is out fully, but I would wait for that and then set it up. (I have began to see the home assistant side being released - its supposed to tie in a lot better than rhasspy2, and even brought the dev on to the HA project)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Didn't home assistant hire the guy who made rhasppy so he could work on their voice assistant?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As others alluded to, theres Home Assistant Assist

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Did you check https://github.com/toverainc/willow-inference-server/ ? I tried it with an ESP-BOX (running https://github.com/toverainc/willow) and the first results are really promising.