orchid garden
I was wondering what are the cheapest setups available to run home assistant with the use of a high quality custom voice model? I believe this requires running Piper, but a raspberry pi 4 can only support up to medium voice quality.
I would ideally like to use the assistant in multiple rooms so I would need multiple devices correct?
oak night
use nabu casa cloud and use VoicePE's as assistant for your rooms. 😉
you can try cloud one month for free
what do you mean with custom voice models? pi and custom voicemodels i a no-go as far as im aware
if running a custom local voice you would need a decent pc and gpu
but cant help with that 😉
orchid garden
what do you mean with custom voice models? pi and custom voicemodels i a no-go a...
I was looking at this github page https://github.com/home-assistant/addons/blob/master/piper/DOCS.md#custom-voices
orchid garden
what do you mean with custom voice models? pi and custom voicemodels i a no-go a...
With custom voice model I mean running it with a specific person’s voice as the voice of the assistant. Eg, something like Jarvis.
oak night
differs by country/language https://support.nabucasa.com/hc/en-us/articles/25619386304541-Text-to-speech-TTS most countries can choose a few voices
but you can wake up the device using hey Jarvis
main bolt
@oak night Zuko actually means the voice of Jarvis not just the wake up word (group) "Hey Jarvis".
oak night
never used jarvis, but might take a google search for the available voices when using cloud
i think when running on pi and not using cloud, answers of assistant will take a long time..
orchid garden
Yeah that is why I was wondering whether the newest raspberry pi or s cheap nuc would suffice
Or i might have to buy a new pc instead 🫠
oak night
buy a 2nd hand (u)sff pc like Dell, HP, Lenovo etc... or a new Beelink S13 or so. Minimum 8, better 16gb ram
orchid garden
Is a strong gpu a requirement though?
I don’t think for basic home assistance having a llm model tied to the voice assistant is necessary right?