"ReSpeaker Lite" - new Seeed Studio Voice Assistant Development Kit hardware combine ESP32 with XMOS XU316 DSP chip for advanced audio processing as a ESPHome-based Home Assistant Assist Satellite voice devkit

[Hedda]

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used Snapcast and Squeezelite on ESP32. They have their own bottlenecks, but all in all work okay. What is impossible is to fit a lot of functionality in one ESP chip.

What I hope/wish is that both Nabu Casa / Home Assistant developers and Espressif get behind and become a driving force for the new “Matter Casting” (“Matter Casting Client”) standard in Home Assistant, ESPHome, Music Assistant for standardized media playback on their Voice Assistants.

"Matter Casting" ("Matter Casting Client") support in Home Assistant and upcoming Voice Assistants? - new open protocol standard for local video and audio streaming

Please consider adding “Matter Casting” support to Home Assistant Cast (as an alternative to the Google Cast protocol), and more importantly, please look at adding Matter Casting support to any upcoming Home Assistant’s Assist Voice Assistant Smart Speakers and Smart Displays (regardless if they are based on Wyoming Satellite or ESPHome Voice Assistant platforms) as Matter Casting is aimed at democratize local video and audio casting in a universal way that can be supported by all ecosystems and…