"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

I will add instructions and schematics. Basically it requires soldering corresponding pins with cables. Probably I could make some cradle board, but it’s hard with the placement of elements.

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wake word greyed out
How do i select a wake word. Its greyed out here and if i change it on the voice assistant page it does not change it in reality. Currently its Ok Nabu. I changed everywhere I could find to Hey Jarvis but it only answer’s to Ok Nabu. Using 1.0.9 from here: GitHub - formatBCE/Respeaker-Lite-ESPHome-integration
Second question is how do I setup a custom wake word.
Third question can i have multiple assistants with different wake words. It would be nice to have two different llms with each their own personality and custom wake word.
Oh and one more question. can the respeaker lite connect to a bluetooth speaker.

I like your enclosure. I am using the 3.5 mm jack for an external speaker. Does the enclosure have a hole for the jack?

  1. Some incompatibility with HA satellite process, this drop-down is unavailable for me too… :frowning: To switch wake word, remove ok_naby from YAML and leave hey_jarvis or hey_mycroft there.
  2. You can in theory, but on practice MWW wake words are too hard to train properly.
  3. No. ESP32S3 is powerful, but not enough to have active connection on WiFi and Bluetooth simultaneously.
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Thank you for your quick response and also for sharing your yaml and firmware to allow this to work.
How do you get stereo out of a 2 pin jtag connector off the device?
I have a couple old 2 wire 10 watt 4 ohm Cambridge sound works speakers. (No 3.5mm plug) I think the repspeaker lite board is only works up to 5 watts. I assume the board will not drive these? Will it harm the board if I try? Ho do I connect 2 2 wire speakers to the jtag and keep stereo?
Sadly my powered portable Bose speakers that do have line in all power off after a time so thats not such a good idea anymore.

10W speakers won’t harm, while impendance is correct - they will just be very quiet.

But there’s no way to get stereo sound from mono connector. That connector is for small speakers for making it alexa-like device, not for stereo playback.

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FYI, FutureProofHomes has now also announced the final hardware design of their much more advanced ”Satellite1 Dev Kit” (or rather announced a public beta pre-launch with pre-order for their the USA only) so that development board hardware looks fully ready too even if not available to ship as of yet.

As you can see in their video they taken a very different approach by making it modular using a two-board design that seperate the compute board from the voice board, and making it compatible with the Raspberry Pi Zero standard it will be both flexible today and upgradable to other compute boards in the future.

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Sadly no hole for the 3.5mm jack and no hole on that end for the usb. I thought we were supposed to power it from the main board not the esp.

Oh yeah, i’m contributing to that project! :slight_smile:

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Great, waiting for the scehamtics so that I know what pin to connect to what pin :slight_smile:

Added pinout for everything.

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