Local Voice Control With Home Assistant Just Got Easier!

For such a long time, I have been hunting for a GOOD local, offline voice assistant that works well with Home Assistant. Due to recent updates in Home Assistant, this has made it possible & much more accessible to make your own, privacy focused voice assistant. Rhasspy is an opensource, local & fully offline voice assistant that is focussed on privacy. There are two different versions of Rhasspy & in this video, I show you how to do both from start to finish.

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[synesthesiam]

Great video, thanks for giving Rhasspy a try! It definitely does need refinement, and some updates. Glad to see Junior is working well at least!

[reidster]

Cloud-based voice control can go IN THE BIN!

[SpecialeW]

I still hope to see an ESPHome mic and speaker to send audio to a central raspberry pi such that it isn't necessary to run multiple Pi's for a multi room setup.

Maybe it's already been done?

[peterlustig]

Great Video. Please go more into detail on a)howto set this up with multiple speakers/mics in different rooms and more advances stuff that you mentioned (running services / automations)!!!1! Love your content

[MakeItWorkTech]

4:34 was the best moment of the video! Great overview of Rhasspy!

[BrianJrVance]

Awesome video to see pop up. As someone that highly values local control for their setup, this makes me quite excited. I haven’t had a voice assistant since I ditched Alexa when starting a fresh setup, so this gives me yet another thing to try.

[albertocalore]

You should add "Rhasspy" in the title, this is the "quick start guide" I had waited for a long time and I hope people would find this easily!

Nice job as usual btw

[revdbrink]

I'm glad this great project get this attention. I use it already for a few years and use it every day. Only in combination with Node-RED.
I hope you also make a video with a personal wake word and how to setup multiple satellites around the house. Keep up these great videos!

[SmartHomeJunkie]

Brilliant Lewis. You got my attention at the point of telling that you can run scripts and automations using this. Now I need this in my life...

[FloWmo]

I was fiddling around with Rhasspy but never got it to run. Thanks for the great video mate!!!

[sdfhjklhsfdjdsflhkds]

Reading through the doc, deployment using remote satellites looks very intriguing.

As always, thanks for the great video Lewis!

[markprice]

Just wanted to say thanks for another great video. Will definitely be trying this. I love your video delivery style. Just the facts without any waffle. It makes it easy when trying to follow when setting it up. Clean, clear, concise. Thank you.

[sylvaindecrom]

Extremely cool! And I don't think it's too technical, thanks for going in depth!

[nickbissel]

Fantastic video, as usual. This is definitely going on the ever-growing to-do list. I just bought my first house so I'm finally getting to do some of the projects that I've been dreaming of for a long long time. This is definitely going to help with one of those. I mean, who doesn't want a real life Jarvis that doesn't collect your data and sell it to marketing companies?

[stephensimon]

This is great, can't wait to give it a try. Would love to see instructions or another video for how to install on a Pi Zero. I've got a couple of those hanging around plus having voice control on every room is the goal, right?

[ThorstenMueller]

Thanks Lewis for making this great video 👏. Making a technical walkthrough for Rhasspy install and setup has been on my YT video TODO list for quite some time now. I think i can mark that video idea as already done now 😆.

[MarcoRagonesi]

Thank you for this. Main reason why I gave up is the lack of “repository “ or blueprint to expand functionality without having to do it by trial and error ( that is more complicated because I should do it in Italian instead of English)
I hope that the official integration will bring some love from the community

[fins]

Hey Lewis, Would you be able to do a follow up on making the additional speaker for another room using the Rasp Pi Zero? This is the kicker for me as I have a few smart speaker around the house. Also was wondering if a Pico W would work (probably not enough processing power or memory). Pico would be cool since I have two and can't get my hands on any more zero's.. Awesome channel!!

[fredwupkensoppel]

No way, I bought the same conference system for my Rhasspy! We're using them in our offices at work now since I was able to recommend them based on my experience with mine.

[jmr]

If we are going to do multiple Rhaspy devices for different rooms we will want to configure them in one place all at once. They could pull a whole home configuration from a single place automatically. That configuration might also include room specific information. The server it pulls from could be aware of the location of each device and send a custom configuration for the room it is in.