BREAKING
Voice Satellite goes hardware-free
Full voice pipeline, no dedicated device
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Wake word
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2
Speech to text
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3
Conversation
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4
TTS & media
Local, private Assist pipeline
Voice Satellite
Local
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Whisper STT
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Piper TTS
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No cloud dependence
Cloud assistants
Alexa/Siri
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Dedicated hardware
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Cloud-based
Three wake word engines
vsWakeWord
WebGPU
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Wall-mounted tablets
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100% recall on ok_nabu
microWakeWord
Default
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Runs on all devices
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Low latency
Requires HA 2025.2.1 and HTTPS
Reuse devices as private assistants
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A new integration turns any tablet, phone or browser into a Home Assistant voice endpoint.