Assist - Talk to your smart home with Home Assistant Assist works in the Home Assistant companion app, on dedicated voice hardware like the Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition, and on devices you build yourself with ESPHome
I use this trick to control Home Assistant without a smart speaker, and . . . You can either pay for Home Assistant Cloud to get access to cloud-based processing for various voice assistant perks (like the ability to use Nabu Casa’s remote processing, or add Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa), or you can go it alone and settle for a more basic local model
Best Practices for a Private Smart Home We’re currently investigating how Home Assistant can better support in evaluating and protecting a home’s privacy If you want to help us, we’d be happy to learn about your approaches, thoughts, and experiences
Private Cloud, Public Features: Home Assistant Local Services By integrating and self-hosting services like media servers, file sync solutions, and local voice assistants, Home Assistant empowers you to replicate the most valuable features of the public cloud, all while keeping your data securely within your own four walls