How to Set Up a Local Voice Assistant With Home Assistant
Home Assistant can run a voice assistant with nothing leaving the house: Whisper or Speech-to-Phrase for speech, Piper for replies, a local LLM for the brain.
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Best Local Speech Models by VRAM Tier (August 2026)
Local TTS and STT by VRAM tier: Parakeet, Canary, MOSS-Transcribe-Diarize, Step-Audio-EditX, Fish Audio S2 Pro and Kokoro, and the licence each ships.