Wyoming

Updated October 2026: I re-tested this on 8 October 2026 against the current rhasspy/wyoming-piper image and corrected three things I got wrong in 2023. Piper is text-to-speech, not speech recognition. Port 10200 isn’t a web interface. And voices are now named like en_GB-alba-medium. The compose file also no longer needs a version line. The Home Assistant steps are unchanged from the original and I haven’t re-run them on a current release. ...

Updated October 2026: I re-tested this on 8 October 2026 against the current rhasspy/wyoming-whisper image. The compose file no longer needs a version line, the default model is now small-int8 instead of medium-int8, and there’s a table of measured model speeds, a test script and a troubleshooting section. The Home Assistant steps come from my original post. I haven’t re-run them on a current Home Assistant release. Wyoming Whisper is the speech-to-text half of a fully local Home Assistant voice assistant. It wraps faster-whisper, a fast implementation of OpenAI’s Whisper models, and Home Assistant talks to it over the Wyoming protocol. The text-to-speech half is Wyoming Piper. ...