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Wyoming Hailo Whisper

Local Wyoming speech-to-text app for Home Assistant using Whisper accelerated by Hailo-8 / Hailo-8L on Raspberry Pi 5.

About

This app exposes a Wyoming STT endpoint on port 10600, intended for Home Assistant voice pipelines. It uses persistent storage under /share/wyoming-hailo-whisper/ for runtime packages and model resources.

What is stored in /share

  • /share/wyoming-hailo-whisper/hailo_packages/ — manually provided Hailo Python wheel
  • /share/wyoming-hailo-whisper/models/ — downloaded HEF/model assets

Installation

  1. Add the J0rsa repository to Home Assistant
  2. Install Wyoming Hailo Whisper
  3. Place the required Hailo Python wheel into:
    • /share/wyoming-hailo-whisper/hailo_packages/
  4. Start the app
  5. Add a Wyoming integration in Home Assistant pointing to port 10600

Configuration

Variant

Supported model variants:

  • tiny
  • base

Device

Supported Hailo devices:

  • hailo8
  • hailo8l

Language

Supported configured languages:

  • en
  • ru

Notes

  • The Hailo Python runtime wheel is manual by design
  • Public Whisper resources are downloaded automatically when needed
  • This app is currently aarch64 / Raspberry Pi 5 focused

Upstream references

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