Why is HA STT and TTS such a dumpster fire?
I’m rebuilding my stt/tts pipelines after cleaning up the home stack and moving HA to docker. it’s 2026 now and home assistant still only officially supports Wyoming (not counting Google as an option, that’s disgusting). The only Wyoming server I can find only supports trash cpu inference or a recent CUDA GPU. Both are asinine for anyone who just wants an efficient local stt/tts that actually works good.
what happened here?
What’s wrong with supporting hardware people actually use at home? Any decent mini pc from the past 6-7 years is fully capable of this but not supported. Are we just supposed to run giant space heaters instead of systems that average under 5-6w?
These “homelab” first solutions fit the mold of other design choices that make HA anti family.
if you’re only going to support an obscure protocol, it would make sense to actually suport it. I know all you have to do is write, test, and iterate your own python wrapper, blah, blah.