A Pi voice assistant and photo frame
A contributor combines a wake-word assistant, a display and a photo slideshow on a Raspberry Pi.
“The mic now has a settle-and-flush period after every playback like a normal person.”
— u/musicalfurball, via r/hermesagent.
- What they built: A contributor combines a wake-word assistant, a display and a photo slideshow on a Raspberry Pi.
- Status and limitations: The report describes audio routing, cold-start delays, resource contention and playback retriggering. It is a hardware experiment with detailed lessons, not a turnkey installer or a verified performance benchmark.
- Evidence: attributed public comment, reviewed on 2026-09-28. This is the contributor’s report; the archive has not independently run or audited their build.