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So my girlfriend has an Alexa and really likes it but I'm not comfortable living in a house with one. How much technical knowledge would I need to make a speaker that connects to a music player app and is voice activated because that is all she uses it for.

I figure I could hook up a raspberry pi to a speaker and add a mic and voice command software that I find somewhere but I've never actually done anything like this before.

How feasible is this

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[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Home assistant declared this year to be the year of the voice. There's a ton of development happening to achieve this with full local control.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

And here is hardware that works with home assistant.

https://heywillow.io/