Fact · Voice and AI
Home Assistant says that the speech-to-text and text-to-speech options that run entirely local send no data to external servers for processing.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“No data is sent to external servers for processing.”
Installing a local Assist pipeline, Home Assistant project, Home Assistant, 2026, Some options for speech-to-text and text-to-speech.
Open the original- What it measures
- The page says the local pipeline is made of Speech-to-Phrase or Whisper for speech to text and Piper for text to speech, and that Assist then works out the action on your own Home Assistant system.
- What it does not show
- The sentence covers the speech engines. It does not cover a cloud language model you add yourself, which sends requests to that provider, nor the Home Assistant Cloud route.