How I Made Home Assistant Voice PE Work with Local Speech Recognition

The problem: HA Voice PE's built-in speech-to-text was slow (~38 seconds per clip) and kept mangling proper names.
What I did: I replaced it with a local whisper.cpp pipeline that runs entirely on my Mac Mini's GPU. The model stays loaded in memory so wake-word responses are instant (~0.5 seconds).
How it works:
A whisper.cpp server runs 24/7 on my machine, keeping the large-v3-turbo model ready
A Wyoming adapter bridges HA's native protocol to that server
I point HA Voice PE at the adapter instead of its default STT
Same model, same accuracy, zero cloud calls
The result: Sub-second wake-word responses, word-perfect transcription of names, and everything stays local. No API keys, no monthly costs, no privacy concerns.
For others wanting this: The key insight is that HA Voice PE speaks the Wyoming ASR protocol natively. You just need a Wyoming-compatible STT server running locally, and you're done. The model stays resident in memory so there's no cold-start delay on wake words.
The adapter script is open source.

Good fun. 🦞

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Good charts

This is what’s currently on the easel.

The background is starting to suck a little less as I work in the new colours I added to my pallet.

There’s a lot of dark values to come yet and it’ll look better later. Right now it’s in an awkward stage - but it’s important to get that correct colour balance now before all of the island and the tree details.

I basically work from back to front. The sky, background and the colour reflected on the water come first.

#artstr #painting #progress #studio #artist #colour

Someone needs to hear this or be reminded 🤔

Windshield wipers (and tires) are essentially safety equipment. They’re worth investing in up front.

Ask your favourite AI for a recommendation, give it your make n model and it’ll even tell you from a photo if you got ‘the right ones.’

#wipers #maintenance #winter #safety.

I should probably post more often… but I haven’t been on social media (or nostr) much lately.

Honestly tho, I hope you all have a fun and productive day.

#gm #nostr #introductions

Another work day at Kimoto Gallery in Ucluelet.


#GM #artstr #gallery #art #ucluelet