Slightly off-topic, but is there a good smart speaker you can more easily disconnect from corporate clouds and integrate with homeassistant? I was excited about the ESP Muse Luxe, but mine kept breaking, and from the reviews, it seems I was not alone. There are a lot of DIY guides for hooking a speaker and microphone up to a raspberry pi, but I'd like something a little less DIY.
> I have provided a CLI and two examples in my code here: one is a web server and client which records and uploads microphone data from the device, and one which acts as a notification indicator for Home Assistant.
from what i have seen at least, you can not not-DIY while swimming against the tide. Any startup promising you that will either upset you in a few months or so, or was a scam all along.
This is exactly the project I have been wanting to build. Unfortunately my knowledge of building schematics is a bit lacking. I sincerely hope this becomes open source, everyone has these things lying around. I'd love to give mine a second life with a Home Assistant driven voice assistant.
I'd love to eventually have voice models that sounds like AI's from movies or games such as Sunshine, Dead space, Halo etc.