✦ Dashie Voice

Capable voice AI, ready out of the box

AI optimized for Home Assistant, pre-configured and ready to go — on Dashie's cloud or your own local model.

Great household voice for HA usually means hours of wiring up models, tools, voices, and prompts. Dashie ships it tuned and working: control your smart home, get real answers from the web, weather, calendar, and sports, and hear it back in a voice your household picks. Centralized setup with no API keys to manage.

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Dashie Voice answering World Cup questions over a Home Assistant dashboard, with a live score card and player photo

Why Dashie Voice

Three things that set it apart from raw Home Assistant, Alexa, or Google.

Plug & Play

Dashie Voice comes pre-configured with access to web search, sports scores, weather, Home Assistant entities, and more. Fully configurable to use a curated selection of local or cloud-based tools to deliver AI your whole household can use.

Adaptive context

Dashie sends the AI only what your question needs — the relevant devices and data, not your whole house. That's faster, cheaper, and more accurate.

Privacy & Your Own Model

Claude, Gemini, Bedrock, or Ollama running locally — you pick the LLM. Cloud queries are anonymized through Dashie. No Google, Amazon, Anthropic, or OpenAI account. No lock-in.

You decide what leaves your home

Every part of the pipeline is your choice — and Dashie tells you, in plain color, whether a choice is local or cloud.

Local (green)

Run your own LLM — your home and device data never leaves the network
On-device speech and local text-to-speech for a fully offline stack
Device control always runs locally — works with no internet
No account and no ongoing cost — you are only paying for your own hardware

Cloud (orange)

Cloud-based LLMs can be more economical than high-powered hardware for a local LLM
Advanced speech recognition and character voices
Web search and live data tools (sports, weather, places)
Queries aggregated and account-anonymized through Dashie
Draws on your credit balance — metered and transparent

When you choose Dashie Voice, we show a one-time privacy summary and color-code each component. Pick a local model alongside local speech and voices and nothing but optional web lookups ever leaves your LAN.

What you get

Everything below works together, on the same "Hey Dashie."

Can run locally Requires cloud

Fast setup, every device

Configure once — every tablet and satellite in your home adopts it. One login, zero per-device fuss.

Optimized prompting

AI is only called when needed and with the context it needs. Responses are optimized for a voice-assistant environment.

Transparent cost

The software is free. If you use Dashie's hosted models you pay only for the inference, metered as credits with clear model labels and per-device usage. Bring your own API key or run a local model and you pay us nothing.

Better speech recognition

More capable voice recognition biased to your household's names and sports teams. Powered by Deepgram.

Voices & personalities

Santa, Pirate, Butler, Drill Sergeant, and more — character voices your family picks, with customizable personalities, well above the local text-to-speech ceiling. Powered by ElevenLabs.

Real current information

Scores and weather come from real data sources — deterministic and real-time, not scraped guesses.

Local-first resilience

Device control runs locally — your lights and scenes keep working even when the cloud is down.

Free & instant for the common case

Device and music commands answer locally, free and sub-second. Only open-ended questions touch paid AI.

Smart conversation Coming soon

Ask follow-ups without re-saying the wake word, and Dashie ignores background chatter instead of looping.