One note - if you're going to self-host WIS (YOU SHOULD) I suggest making good use of the more powerful hardware otherwise and putting HA on it.
HA on Raspberry Pi (while popular) is pretty slow when compared to the kinds of response times Willow provides. It's frustrating to see perfect speech recognition come back from Willow + WIS in 200ms (or whatever) and then take HA another 150ms to do something with it :).
We're excited about WAS too - just need to think about it a bit more before we start getting to it!
Thanks for the tips. I do plan to self-host WIS. I only have a single GPU currently, on my home desktop, and I'm going to test with this. Next step is going to be looking into a standalone fanless GPU system and determining whether I want to spend money on that or look at used hardware. The hardware adventure is part of the fun.
WIS has been tested with WSL (if you're running Windows) and supports anything from a GTX 1060 3GB up to H100 so you can certainly throw it on your gaming desktop to start.
One note - if you're going to self-host WIS (YOU SHOULD) I suggest making good use of the more powerful hardware otherwise and putting HA on it.
HA on Raspberry Pi (while popular) is pretty slow when compared to the kinds of response times Willow provides. It's frustrating to see perfect speech recognition come back from Willow + WIS in 200ms (or whatever) and then take HA another 150ms to do something with it :).
We're excited about WAS too - just need to think about it a bit more before we start getting to it!