Tutorial on setting up 2023 HA with wifi speaker/mic as voice assistant and music player w/o cloud?

Has anyone been able to find a step by step tutorial on this? It should include best speaker/mic device, how to configure in HA, how to do simple action like controlling a light.

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Maybe this just cant be done?

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I’m searching for the same thing.

Without cloud ? I use and would recommend Rhasspy v2.5 - though it doesn’t do the music player.

As for best hardware … there isn’t currently any that stands out at low-medium cost. Raspberry Pi with a microphone card used to be recommended before chip availability problems, and the microphones and sound processing aren’t as good as those used by the dedicated cloud-based services.

Michael Hansen who developed Rhasspy is now working for Nabu Casa; and we are seeing first stages of Home Assistant’s year of the voice.

+1 anyone found a way? Anyone try USB extender (over wifi?)