Preview the future of voice today: for Home Assistant is rapidly advancing their open source, privacy-focused voice assistant for the home. Preview Edition was built to help more people participate in development and allow anyone to preview the future of voice today. The easiest way to start with Assist: Just connect it to USB-C power (cable and power supply not included) and it will connect with for Home Assistant via an intuitive installation wizard. No assembly required. The private voice assistant: Pairing Voice Preview Edition with powerful for Home Assistant hardware can allow it to run fully locally, or offload its audio processing to the privacy-focused for Home Assistant Cloud - for Home Assistant. It also includes a hardware mute switch that physically cuts power to the microphones. Language support: Assist aims to support more languages than other voice assistants, but this is still a work in progress, and for Home Assistant needs your help. Check the Talking with for Home Assistant - get your system up & running - for Home Assistant in the for Home Assistant's Assist documentation. Advanced Audio Processing: Dual microphones and the XMOS audio processor cuts through noise to hear your voice clearly. Note: Voice Preview Edition requires for Home Assistant to operate. Weaker for Home Assistant hardware can lead to slow speech processing. If you have lower-power for Home Assistant hardware, you should offload speech processing to for Home Assistant Cloud. Color: White Material: ABS Package Contents: 1 x Home Assistant Voice