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Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition

Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition

$58.95 USD
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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

 

If you select Condition "Other": This refurbished Home Assistant Voice PE Hardware is a fully tested, returned unit in perfect working condition (Updated to the current Firmware), complete with its original box. It may lack stickers, the getting started guide, warranty, and safety information, and could show minor dents or scratches.

 

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Anonymous
Works well, just needs HA improvements

The hardware here is good, the fit and finish is quite pleasant, the attention to detail with the lights (the ring of LEDs doesn't just turn on or off as the volume changes, but each light can partially brighten to indicate more levels of volume control) and switches (a physical microphone switch!) are nice too. One brief note is that this isn't an iPod-style "clickwheel": it's a physical wheel that spins, and the clicky button is in the middle, but I don't expect that'll bother me.

My main complaint is not with the hardware, but the current state of the software side: using only Home Assistant built-ins and local addons (not including Ollama), it can't really respond well to what should be basic sentences, like "What's the temperature outside?" or "Pause the music", at least in my HA setup. Others, like "Turn on the house lights" are fine, so this may depend on better names or configuration within Home Assistant, but it would be great if HA provided a better flow for making the necessary tweaks. It's also probable that LLM integration would resolve some of these issues, at the cost of sending everything to a third party or relatively long delays.

Anyway, the hardware is great, 5/5, so that's the rating I'm giving. The software side can be improved in the future, but don't go into this expecting a fully-formed virtual assistant just yet.

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Matthew Hunt
Super-easy integration into HAOS!

Shipping for this was FAST and it was well-packaged. I appreciate the prompt service!
The device, itself, is rather nice. (Especially if you've rolled your own with a Pi Zero and a 2-mic hat or similar configuration.) This thing just works.
Is it the best sound quality? No... but it isn't terrible, either. It's a small form-factor and well-engineered.

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Timothy Lusk
A Promising Glimpse Into the Future of Local Voice Control

I’ve been using the Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition, and it’s honestly impressive how far things have come. The wake word detection is quick, responses are natural, and—best of all—everything runs locally. No cloud dependency, no data being shipped off somewhere, just fast and private smart home control.

Setup was surprisingly straightforward, and it already works with most of my Home Assistant automations without extra tinkering. The voice feedback feels thoughtful and personal, not robotic or canned. It’s still early days, but this preview shows massive potential—especially for anyone who values privacy, customization, and open-source innovation.

If this is just the preview, the full release is going to be a game-changer.

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Bo
Using for an escape room voice controller and audio feedback device

I'm helping my daughter build an escape room for fun, and we wanted the participants to solve a riddle, placing runestones in a correct orientation (I'm using Sonoff Door/Window sensors for those, also available at ameridroid). When two runestones are placed in the correct position, a deep church bell sound plays over the speaker. When all the runestones are in the correct position, there's a 5 second delay, and then a voice says "Well done, squires" over this. Then, it triggers a box to open up using a Shelly 1 UL and Shelly Manipulator run with a 12V battery. Lots of fun!

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Brian Fogarty
Great product-great service

quick turnaround on the order. Properly packed to ensure no damage en-route. Promptly shipped and quickly received. Very satisfied!

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