Hi,
I’ve installed home assistant on a raspberry pi 3B+. I’ve also added piper and whisper and played around with it. As it was expected the pi 3 couldn’t really cope with piper. It works but extremely laggy.
I’m on the market for a raspberry 4 but I haven’t found any info on the ram size.
Is the 4gb raspberry pi 4 enough? Would the 8gb version offer any benefits?
Thanks!
If you are buying a new RPi4, you will need a new PSU of at least 3A, and the case is different if you use one. You will also be advised to buy an SSD and not use an SD card. If you take these issues into account you will be far better off spending out on a mini pc, or second hand thin client, nuc or similar. It will give you far more scope to run voice stuff.
I’m still at the early stages so thanks for the advice! I’ll have a look into these.
What I’ve read so far though is that piper is optimized for the pi4 and even running it on the pi5 requires some fiddling around…
Currently I have alexa and SmartLife/Tuya but I want to trigger Alexa routines with the switches and this is how I got into homeassistant. Basically I just want reasonable sounding human sounds which probably can be done with virtual hue integration on a raspberry pi3 but I got too excited on piper and it’s ability to speak multiple languages. 