Esp32-s3-box 3 performance disappointing

[Stiltjack]

There’s a walk through in Community Guides:

Espressif Box devices + Willow Multilingual Voice STT & TTS Home Assistant Add-on How To Configure

For those folks lucky enough to have an Espressif Box3 (order one from AliExpress), you can now try Willow with the new Willow Add-on for HA. Note that this is just the Willow Application Server (WAS) which configures the STT service your Box3 uses and it send your spoken word to the Willow team’s cloud hosted, best-efforts Willow Inference Server (WIS) which then spits it back to HA in under 1 second. You do not need to install a local WIS Inference server for this to work. NOTE: I am not af…