Snips Alternatives?

Configuration Voice Assistant
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Hi all,

This is not exactly a feature request, but I put it here as I know there is also Almond…

So after what the bastards at Sonos did, destroying the work of months for dozens of people here and somewhere else, I want now try to fidn an alternative to Snips.

I just would like to collect and hear if people have some experience with one of the tools.

So first there is Home Assistant Almond. Sadly I can’t learn much about it here https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/almond/

Can it understand german? Is it possible to put tiny clients (i.e. on a Pi) in each room? I read somewhere that it is no voice recognition but it seems that I could talk to it? Is there a place where I can find detailed information how it integrates with HA?

mycroft.ai: Installed this ones and it wasn’t able to speak german. Quick Google search seems to show me that it is today. Any experiences? Could it be integrated with HA
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Than I stumbled about Sepia today. Any experiences? Is it compatible with HA?

Sorry if there are any threads on this already, I was unable to find them! If so, I would be happy if you link them :slight_smile:

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Lol okay there is a Voice Assistant Category. Totally missed that :smiley:

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Have a look at Rhasspy which just released version 2.5 and does support German and can integrate with Home Assistant out of the box.

https://rhasspy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

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Thanks, will check it out!

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Installing was done in no time and already switched the first lights in HA through a Node-Red flow getting its intents from a separate rhasspy Pi4. Great! No problems during setup and very easy configuration through the web interface. Love it!

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