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Huntszyon Show HN: Willow – Open-source privacy-focused voice assistant hardware

What kind of privacz issues are you reffering to? Legit qustion btw, I'm not aware of any but would like to read about it.

Huntszyon Show HN: Willow – Open-source privacy-focused voice assistant hardware

That's might closer than you think I guess. The thing is that the new Assist pipeline is fully customisable and can use other models as well. They already have a ChatGPT integration which does not able to control entities in HA but at least you can have a conversation with ChatGPT in speach trough HA.

So if you spin up somehow an LLM model locally and connect create a HA Assist pipeline with it and than you use Willow(s future release which should be able to leverage the new Assist featre) as a phisical interface than you are golden.

It may be hard or impossible today but I think within months HA and Willow will mature into a state where tha bigges problem will be the training and runing a good enough LLM model locally. But I bet a good amount of hackers are already hard working on that part anyway.