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
- Home Assistant Hub (ameriDroid Smart Home, Home Assistant Yellow, Home Assistant Green, or custom install on a Single Board Computer or other computer)
- USB-C Cable and Power Supply
- WiFi Connection
- Web Browser or Home Assistant App

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
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SoC |
ESP32-S3 SoC with 16 MB of FLASH storage 8 MB octal PSRAM |
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Audio Processing |
XMOS XU316 Featuring:
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Power/data |
USB-C, 5 V DC, 2 A |
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Radios |
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Audio output |
3.5 mm (⅛”) stereo headphone jack Digital to analog converter (DAC):
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Physical controls |
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Microphone & speaker |
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Expandability |
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Software |
ESPHome preloaded Fully open-source firmware for:
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Requirements |
Home Assistant already configured on another device. For fully local speech processing, we recommend a
This flexibility allows you to choose the setup |
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Language support |
Check Home Assistant Assist documentation |
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Environmental conditions |
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Dimensions & weight |
84x84x21 mm, 96 g | with box: 94x94x30 mm, 120g |
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Material |
Enclosure:
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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 (Ships from Kentucky within 1-3 business days).
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Unfortunately, I am very underwhelmed with the product so far. Many of the things I ask it says it doesn't understand or it'll just tell me the time... ive even tried asking it the questions that it shows you can ask and it'll just tell me the time
Hello Travis,
What Conversational agent are you using? If you are using simply Home Assistant, those answers will be pretty normal, if you want the converstional agent to be smarter you will need to use an AI, you can use integrations like ChatGPT or Google AI to make your agent smarter and be able to respond to more things. Are you using Home Assistant Cloud to process Speech to Text and Text to Speech? If you need help troubleshooting please reach out to us to orders@ameridroid.com
very pleased, excellent service, delivered on time.
Amazing delivery service! The driver kept me updated, arrived earlier than expected, and handled everything with exceptional care. The package was in perfect condition, and the entire process was seamless. Truly five-star service!
The customer service we received was amazing. After having some trouble with the product, we quickly received an email offering help. After a bit of troubleshooting, the issues were figured out. It's worth remembering that the Home Assistant Voice is still a PREVIEW product, but AmeriDroid did everything they could to ensure it worked for us.
These guys deserve their high reputation.
As badly as I want to dump my amazon voice products my experience with this voice assistant makes Alexa seem like a Cadillac.
Sitting 2 feet from this device in a quiet room and saying the wake word yields no response yet a random comment on the TV that was nothing like the wake word gets it's attention. Then it follows up by saying it can't help with...repeats back the last 30 seconds of TV conversation.
It lets you pick from a couple of foolish wake words but if you want to create your own prepare to go thru a nightmare of programming activities. I have yet to be successful with the process.
At best this thing will operate most of your HA connected devices but it doesn't come close to replacing the functionality of something like Alexa.