I powered on two HomeAssistant Voice Preview Edition devices, trying to replace our use of Google Home. It is set up self-hosted in a HomeAssistant VM, running on a quite old Dell T320 server running Proxmox. It is an E5-2450 v2 with 8 cores and 20MB cache at 2.5 GHz. The HA-OS VM gets two of those cores.
Pros:
- has an announce function, one of the most common things we use Google Home for. Yes, we use Google Home primarily as an overly complicated intercom.
- entirely self-hosted, voice doesn't leave the home
Cons: haven't yet figured out the other common things we use Google Home for.
- set timer for N minutes
- play music from YouTube
- recurring alarms every weekday/Thursdays/etc