Hi! I'm wrote a guide on having Whisper running in a separate local server. This could help people that are running Home Assistant in a not-so-powerful hardware and would like to externalize heave IA related tasks, but keep everything local to their network. I hope you find it useful!
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/remote-voice-assist-pipeline-whisper/841968
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In this post, I’d like to show you how to run Piper on a different computer, outside your Home Assistant server. Many users run Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi or a small PC. While Piper (especially with fast and small models) can work on those setups, its performance is often suboptimal. Since Wyoming allows for a remote Piper installation, I...