Building a Local Smart Home Voice Assistant With ESPHome!

Published at : 23 Dec 2025

Home Assistant has finally added the long awaited wake word feature to their local voice assistant, which is amazing news as it means you can now control your smart home locally with just your voice. Today we go through how to setup Home Assistants voice assistant and how you can build your own with an esp32, a microphone, amplifier and speaker using ESPHome.

Parts:
ESP32: https://shop.everythingsmart.io/products/est-esp32-devkit-esp32-development-kit
Other ESP32s: https://amzn.to/3rTYUgq
Microphone: https://amzn.to/3Q2ULyF
Amp: https://amzn.to/3Qpb5LA
Speaker: https://amzn.to/3QqZ4oV

ESPHome Code:
https://gist.github.com/EverythingSmartHome/055fbdde31a607ef9d695d5cac780e94

ESPHome beginners guide:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iufph4dF3YU

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