Cloning my Voice Into an AI Assistant

I did it…..after days of frustration, blood, sweat and coffee..I finally figured out a way to clone a voice to use with my fully local, AI voice assistant!!!! This isn’t using cloud-based products like ElevenLabs…no…we are using a fully-local, open-source project called Piper TTS. This works wonderfully with the Assist voice pipeline in Home Assistant.

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[NetworkChuck]

I did it…..after days of frustration, blood, sweat and coffee..I finally figured out a way to clone a voice to use with my fully local, AI voice assistant!!!! This isn’t using cloud-based products like ElevenLabs…no…we are using a fully-local, open-source project called Piper TTS. This works wonderfully with the Assist voice pipeline in Home Assistant.








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[drenpirraku]

It probably has been years since i watched a 37 min video without skipping once let alone a tech video. I feel like my attention span has been permanently increased.

[nickolde]

With all the dependency issues and fiddling around, someone should totally make this toolkit into a docker image!

[FuchsDanin]

Quick note -- instead of removing silence, you would have been better served splitting at silence. The output would have been more intelligible for transcription, would not have required as many mid-word cuts which cause issues, etc etc

[PreNetwork]

18:14 "You have no idea how amazing it is to get to this point with no errors" -- really hit home

[mp]

As someone who never realised local LLM's were a thing until a week ago... amazing video. I've learnt a lot.

[johnenerio]

You need to pay Terry Crews and show him to properly create his own voice AI assistance because he's super into computers and technology. Do video with Terry Crews, pay to have him appear, and it will boost your already popularity to the max love to see if NetworkChuck included Terry Crews on his segments.

[deceptin]

Bravo, this is the peak educational youtube content. Learning with a twisted bit of fun

[iggr]

Chuck, @22:13 there is a warning that says 173 utterances were skipped, and probably that's why the end model sounded so badly. The same happened to me and I've read that this may happen when the length/number of words of each transcription or wav file is too large. Instead of 15 second clips, I experimented with 10-second or lower ones and didn't have this error.

Edit: This is issue #663 on the piper github page.

[kingston]

Just bought a new house and am currently working on setting up automation and localizing everything offline. Challenge I'm hitting right now is getting mics in every space that go back to the assistant instead of having pi's everywhere. Also trying to limit the response to the room from which the request came from.

Thanks for all the content! You have definitely made the process way more understandable and fun.

[jjones]

im going to sit my dad down and have him record as many samples as i can get him to. what an amazing way to keep his legacy one day when hes not around.

[yangenmanuel]

The end results of all the methods were so cool. Worth watching the entire video.

[exploittutorial]

Him: a CPU will work
Me: looking at my HP 540 g3

[satnlafsasurot]

I went through the same exact nightmare. I finally was able to coax my WSL into getting through a successful install. I laughed so hard and cried along with you. I 100% feel your pain. I was in a little race to see if I could train mine before you posted.

[TobiasTW]

I am so greatful that someone made a video on piper I've been trying for literal days to get this program to work thank you so much 🙏🙏

[DiaburoDev]

That was intense. I can't imagine, how much time, work, coffee and nerves you put in this project, but it really was worth it. Terry sounds great! I hope the next project is less nerve wrecking. xD

[shane]

Hey thanks for all your videos on home automation. I've started my own home automation journey watching your channel and learning what's possible. Now looking forward to commanding my home like the USS Enterprise.... "Computer; make coffee" :D

[freshseeds]

I had like flash backs for the 1st 10seconds, from being a kid yelling at those recorded talk back hamster toys with that same audio playing back XP

[TomDavenport]

Honestly the chuck voice had me laughing so hard after 30 min of development 😂

[mitchellpayne]

@NetworkChuck this video exemplifies the fact that you're bringing the total package here (more than just a pretty face lol ;P ). Your technical savvy, relatable and engaging casual vernacular, and absolutely top-notch production quality leaves nothing left to be desired. It's a foregone conclusion that I'm automatically and unabashedly looking forward to the next video. I've been watching you for a few years now and you just keep making it happen! It's not an easy thing to do (so I've heard, and so it would seem based on empirical observations). So as loud as I can say it in all caps, THANK YOU NETWORKCHUCK! :)