Using a desktop as a always listening assistant

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Morning all,

TL:DR: Anyone know how to get voice with wake words on running on a desktop, not ESP or rPi?

I have acquired a touchscreen desktop that a client no longer needs. A new HDD and an installation of Manjaro has it running well. I’ve used the WebApp program to get a kiosk instance of HA on a desktop.

My goal is to have it act as a voice assistant that can respond to wake words. Has anyone achieved this with a desktop or are they all ESP32s or rPis? I’d love for this to be a thing. I have too many old laptop & desktop computers hanging around. A 7" HDMI touchscreen is just so price friendly that it would be a shame to not make use of them in that manner with a microphone and speaker.

Thanks for any advice.

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Thank you for that link. I tried it and it doesn’t have wake word support like the ESPs. I couldn’t even actually get it to work with just typing. I’ll put a bug report in, but it doesn’t seem to be working.

You haven’t crossed anything else, by chance?

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You could run Wyoming satellite with a local openWakeWord on the device. That’d do it I bet.

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I’m sorry but this is the only project I found.

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That looks good! I’m going to check that out and report back my findings.

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I’m looking to implement wake word support, probably with openwakeword. Any aid on this would be great! Wake word support · Issue #237 · timmo001/home-assistant-assist-desktop · GitHub

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I have an old laptop that I want to use as a screen and pseudo-Google speaker/Voice Assistant (my hub is a different computer).

Did anyone get this working?