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Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition

Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition

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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. If you are experiencing issues please try to upgrade to the latest firmware by connecting your HA Voice PE to a computer via USB-C and using this tool "https://esphome.github.io/home-assistant-voice-pe/".

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

 

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Customer Reviews

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Peter

Shipped quickly & safely. Very cool product, works very well -- especially for a "preview edition"!

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Seth
Easy to get set up

I had no problem setting up the Voice PE following the basic instructions.

It works pretty well, and the tiny faster-whisper models work well enough for everyday tasks.

Next, training a new wake word!

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Nicholas Howells
No complaints

Nice addition, new toy to play with, quick shipping and delivery

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Alan

It’s not perfect , but it’s neat.
Having fun, if you don’t like, it’s more the software and Home Assistant.
But I believe in the project and it will get better.

It’s just tough if you’re watching tv , it keeps getting confused…. This is my first voice assistant, so far so good for my expectations.

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KO
Even better than expected

I began my journey with Home Assistant in 2014. I remember how much time and effort it took to get things running correctly and adding integrations and automations. I purchased this a couple of weeks ago after stumbling across a dirt cheap 3060 12gb gpu. I had my own LLM AI system set up and ready when the voice arrived. Within 10 minutes I had it setup and fully functioning with my entirely local home automation and AI assistant. This project has come a LONG way. Super excited to see where it goes next. I think it may be worth mentioning that it is smaller than I expected, which was a nice surprise. These could be very easily integrated into your home with little to no visual impact.

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