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Pine64 has started shipping their smart speaker! (pine64.com)

submitted 17 hours ago by cadekat@pawb.social to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 hours ago

I love fully local stuff, but the LLM part seems very expensive. Even for such a simple thing as managing our lights and music.

Yeah, this is something I found out when I hacked my Amazon Echo and put LineageOS on it. I like the new interface that isn't constantly advertising Amazon bullshit as a screensaver, but it doesn't have a GPU, so attempting to put any sort of voice component takes many seconds to try to process.

And in this post-memory-crisis economy, it's not quite the right time to buy a dedicated LLM processing rig for my house. But, this really needs to be the route in the future. Or just install a NPU on this speaker itself. Phones already do this, and it's been the standard since 2017.