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Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition

Original price $58.95 - Original price $58.95
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$58.95
$58.95 - $58.95
Current price $58.95
Product: Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition
Price: $58.95
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Thank you for choosing ameriDroid as your preferred Home Assistant provider! We currently have the HA Voice in stock, but due to your immense support, new orders might take some time to be fulfilled as we work through our backlog of pre-orders.

Current Shipping Status:

  • As of Tue 11-Feb-2025, we are now working on orders AD98850 and higher. To date, we have shipped thousands of units, and we are diligently working to fulfill all pre-orders as quickly as possible. Our shipping team is working overtime to target 21-Feb-2025 as the date all existing and new HA Voice PE orders will be shipped.
  • 27-Jan-2025: We're pleased to announce that have received the latest batch and we have enough unit to fulfill all pre-orders and ship new orders! However, please note that it will take some time for us to catch up with all existing pre-orders before we can begin shipping new orders. We appreciate your patience and understanding as we work through the backlog. We are committed to fulfilling all orders as quickly as possible.
  • 14-Jan-2025: The mid-January shipment has arrived, and we will be shipping these out as quickly as possible over the next week.



The open source, privacy-focused voice assistant, built to work with Home Assistant

Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition is the open source, privacy-focused voice assistant built to seamlessly connect with Home Assistant, and preview the future of voice today. Its advanced audio processor and dual microphones allow it to hear your commands and control devices. Tactile controls, the injection-molded case and LED ring lend to its premium feel, allowing it to blend into the home. 

Note: Voice Preview Edition requires Home Assistant to operate. Lower-performance Home Assistant hardware may result in slower speech processing. For optimal performance, we recommend offloading speech processing to Home Assistant Cloud if your hardware is less powerful.

What's in the box?

  • Quick Start Guide
  • Warranty & Safety Information
  • Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition

Requirements

Features

  • Built for Home Assistant: The first voice hardware designed by the team driving the development of Home Assistant, and built from the ground up to work with Home Assistant. 

  • Preview the future of voice today: Home Assistant is rapidly advancing their open source, privacy-focused voice assistant for the home. Preview Edition was built to help more people participate in development and allow anyone to preview the future of voice today.

  • The easiest way to start with Assist: Just connect it to USB-C power (cable and power supply not included) and it will connect with Home Assistant via an intuitive installation wizard. No assembly required. 

  • The private voice assistant: Pairing Voice Preview Edition with powerful Home Assistant hardware can allow it to run fully locally, or offload its audio processing to the privacy-focused Home Assistant Cloud. It also includes a hardware mute switch that physically cuts power to the microphones.

  • Language support: Assist aims to support more languages than other voice assistants, but this is still a work in progress, and Home Assistant needs your help. Check the supported languages in the Home Assistant’s Assist documentation.

  • Advanced Audio Processing: Dual microphones and the XMOS audio processor cuts through noise to hear your voice clearly.

  • Visual and audio feedback: The multicolored LED ring displays when it's listening, volume levels, and more. Get sensor readings, timers and other feedback via its speaker. Connect an external speaker for media playback via its 3.5mm headphone jack.

  • Physical controls: The rotary dial lets you control volume and LED brightness, while the multifunction button can trigger Assist or be customized in Home Assistant.

  • Blends into the home: Its small, unobtrusive design is injection-molded giving it a premium look, and its tactile controls give it a premium feel.

  • Expandable: Built on ESPHome, sensors can be added via the included Grove port.

  • Fully open and community-driven: Completely open software, firmware, and hardware lets you make it work the way you want.  All backed by a dedicated community customizing and adding functionality.

Specifications

SoC

ESP32-S3  SoC with 16 MB of FLASH storage

8 MB octal PSRAM

Audio Processing

XMOS XU316

Featuring:

  • Echo cancellation
  • Stationary noise removal
  • Auto gain control

Power/data

USB-C, 5 V DC, 2 A

Radios

  • 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi
  • Bluetooth 5.0 Low Energy

Audio output

3.5 mm (⅛”) stereo headphone jack

Digital to analog converter (DAC): 

  • TI AIC3202
  • 48 kHz sampling rate

Physical controls

  • Multipurpose button 
  • Rotary dial for volume and other input
  • Mute switch that physically cuts power to the microphone

Microphone & speaker

  • Internal speaker
    Internal dual-mic array
    Hardware mute switch
  • Dedicated I2S lines for audio in and out

Expandability

  • Grove port to connect sensors or other accessories
  • Easy to open - no clips, only screws to access internals
  • Exposed pads on PCB for modding 

Software

ESPHome preloaded

Fully open-source firmware for:

  • ESP32
  • XMOS chip

Requirements

Home Assistant already configured on another device. 

For fully local speech processing, we recommend a 
Home Assistant system based on an Intel N100 or higher
for the best experience. Lower-performance hardwaremay
work but could lead to slower processing.
If you experience delays, you have options:

  • Consider using external hardware for voice
    processing, such as a
    more powerful server or a dedicated system.
  • Offload speech processing to Home Assistant Cloud,
    which ensures smooth performance regardless of
    your hardware.

This flexibility allows you to choose the setup
that works best for your needs.

Language support

Check Home Assistant Assist documentation
for an
up-to-date list.

Environmental conditions
for operation

  • Indoor use only
  • O °C to 30 °C
  • 32 °F to 86 °F
  • Humidity: non-condensing
  • Keep in dry, not excessively dusty environment 
    as this can cause damage to the unit

Dimensions & weight

84x84x21 mm, 96 g | with box: 94x94x30 mm, 120g

Material

Enclosure:

  • Injection-molded
  • Polycarbonate plastic 
  • Colors: White and Semi-transparent

 

SKU U0231

Trivia Time!

Customer Reviews

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Dariusz
ameriDroid - Yes

This is not a review of the Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition, but rather of the service, which I am very satisfied with. First of all, I appreciate having a clear and transparent description of the product when making an online purchase. I can easily track my shipment without worrying about contacting customer service. Thank you!

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Cc
Ok but not great..

It kinda works, but it is still very “rigid” when it comes to wording required, latency is ok but not great, some missed keyword wakeuos and some spurious one. So it is fine but not super usable.

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Gary Butters
Great product

Small size works well

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Michael Secord
Small size. works well

The Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition was easy to setup and works well. The volume of the speaker is adequate for the small size. I like the overall design and functionality. I had to increase the probability_cutoff parameter for the Hey Jarvis wake word to reduce false triggers

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Badger
Local and Private

I was excited these came out. No need to custom build or frankendroid some hardware together! I would suggest doing some Youtube searches on how to setup the device and use it. It took me about 15 minutes to have 5 devices connected to my Home Assistant install. Notes on slow responses: if using local or cloud LLM, responses always depend on your internet connection and hardware used for local installs. A 1-3 second lag beats having your house monitored 24/7 & everything you say analyzed and sold for marketing.

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