My Journey to a reliable and enjoyable locally hosted voice assistant

The author documents their journey building a fully local voice assistant using HomeAssistant Assist, replacing Google Home/Nest Minis. They detail hardware configurations (various GPUs, Beelink MiniPC with USB4 eGPU), voice satellite devices, and software choices including llama.cpp for model inference and various STT/TTS options. The post covers optimizations for prompt efficiency, handling transcription errors, and improving reliability of local LLM-based voice control.