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by lsaferite 886 days ago
I don't suppose you guys have something in the works for a polished voice I/O device to replace Alexa and Google Home? They work fine, but need internet connections to function. If the desire is to move to fully offline capabilities then we need the interface hardware to support. You've already proven you can move in the hardware market (I'm using one of your yellow devices now). I know I'd gladly pay for a fully offline interface for every room of my house.
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That's something we've been building towards to all of last year. Last iteration can be seen at [1]. Still some checkboxes to check before we're ready to ship it on ready-made hardware.

[1]: https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/12/13/year-of-the-vo...

It looks like the "ESP32-S3-BOX-3" is the latest hardware iteration? I looked last year online for the older S3 hardware and everywhere was out of stock. Do you have a recommendation for where to purchase or perhaps alternatively some timeline for a new version with increased planned production?