Fact · Voice and AI
Home Assistant says French may work well enough with the largest Whisper model, which needs a GPU, but is unusable on a Raspberry Pi or even an N100-class PC.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“A language like French may work well enough with the largest Whisper model (which requires a GPU), but is unusable on a Raspberry Pi or even an N100-class PC.”
Next iteration of our Voice Assistant is here (Voice chapter 10), Home Assistant project, Home Assistant blog, 2025, Language support.
Open the original- What it measures
- The project uses this example to show that language support depends on hardware as well as on the model.
- What it does not show
- A project judgement about French. It does not give a measured accuracy or speed for each model.