Seeed ReSpeaker XVF3800

Unpopular opinion? The ReSpeaker XVF3800 is the undisputed king of HA voice satellites right now.. Don't get me wrong, I have mad respect for the devs working on rooting the Echo Dot 2 (the EchoMuse project is genuinely awesome and reusing old tech is great). But after trying different setups, I honestly think the ReSpeaker XVF3800 device is miles ahead of anything else out there for local voice control. The hardware on this board is just on another level. It uses 4 mics and has onboard hardware DSP. The noise suppression and acoustic echo cancellation are insane, it actually hears you clearly …

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There is a respeaker by seeed studio that people say is ok. You mean the respeaker xvf3800? If so, it is bad. I setup Kiosk Satellite on a Samsung tablet for my night table with the xvf3800 but it was terrible, performed at best at the same level of the tablet's built-in mic. I ended up installing Kiosk Satellite and Voice Satellite on an Echo Show 8 w/ LineageOS. Sure, the performance of the Echo Show 8 is like 1/10th of the Samsung tablet I was using but holy crap the mic and the speakers on the Echo Show are incredible. Since it will be mostly a device for voice interactions, it was the …

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