Is this the last part I need to actually now bin the Google Home devices?

I use them to switch lights, listen to music and change the temperature.

With this, could I use that as the voice commands into home assistant for example?

Man i would like to be this technical or have the time to tinker around

I'm trying to set up an always transcribing speech to text note taking app on a pixel 6. Does anyone know a good place to start on this?

It's wifi enabled but I guess by "sim card doesn't work'" they meant carrier locked. So I can't get graphene on it. But I figure if the wifi is off it won't phone home.

Neat. But this is all doable on home assistant currently. I was hoping the OpenAi part had been solved but sadly it has not.

Im sure this works but from my recent experience you need your STT on a machine more powerful than a PI atm. Tiny models are just not accurate enough and the bigger ones need more than the PI has to give any sort of decent response time. Compared to where this was two years ago I look forward to where it is in two more.

One of the largest improvements imo has been microwakeword and the ability to run the hotword detection “on device” but I believe it only runs on ESP32 devices so not an option if want everything on a pi.

I spent a little bit of time getting a fully local voice pipeline setup in home assistant last month and I’d say it is near perfect(after adding a few additional community integrations) with the exception of the microphones on current hardware. I look forward to the next HA voice device from Nabu Casa.