The wyoming protocoll seems to be the path for home assistant audio, so you need STT (wyoming-faster-whisper), TTS (wyoming-piper for wide language support) API endpoints and some Ollama or OpenAI API endpoint available for your home assistant server.
replyThat is interesting, thanks. And I see separable wake-word detection there. I'd always assumed that was likely to be closer to the metal (more like recognise a sound than turn sound to word).
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