voice assistant with music

[elder moat]

Hi ppl I'm very new into this home automation thing. I hv a rpi 3 laying around which I wanna repurpose as a voice assistant, I want it so that I can stream music by just asking lik alexa
is this possible to do with home assistant and pls guide me on the right path

and I also want it to do basic tasks lik math and all

[ashen peak]

Can you clarify: Do you already have a home assistant setup and you are just looking to make VA that connects to it OR are you starting from scratch?

[elder moat]

starting from scratch

[elder moat]

@ashen peak I hv tried using the amazon avs service but there is no music playing capability so I decided to scrap that

[ashen peak]

So... you can probably do what you want with home assistant (and music assistant) but you will need more then a single RPI3...
Do you want fully local or are you okay with using cloud services for some tasks?
Do you already have some homelab/selfhosted services running?

[elder moat]

it wud be nice if I could do everything on the pi itself

[ashen peak]

There is not really any way to sugar coat this... The simple answer here is "no".
Basically you are asking if you can do what big tech does by leveraging massive data centres on a cheap 10 year old SBC.

[elder moat]

oh.

[elder moat]

thx for helping tho