HiveMind Voice Relay

OpenVoiceOS Relay, connect to HiveMind

A lightweight version of voice-satellite, but STT and TTS are sent to HiveMind instead of handled on device

Server requirements

⚠️ hivemind-listener is required server side, the default hivemind-core does not provide STT and TTS capabilities.

Alternatively run hivemind-core together with ovos-audio and ovos-dinkum-listener

The regular voice satellite is built on top of ovos-dinkum-listener and is full featured supporting all plugins

The voice relay is built on top of ovos-simple-listener, while it needs less resources it is also missing some features

STT plugin
TTS plugin
Audio Transformers plugins
Continuous Listening
Hybrid Listening
Recording Mode
Sleep Mode
Multiple WakeWords

If you need an even lighter implementation, consider hivemind-mic-satellite to also offload wake word to the server

Install

Install with pip

$ pip install HiveMind-voice-relay

Usage

Usage: hivemind-voice-relay [OPTIONS]

  connect to HiveMind

Options:
  --host TEXT      hivemind host
  --key TEXT       Access Key
  --password TEXT  Password for key derivation
  --port INTEGER   HiveMind port number
  --selfsigned     accept self signed certificates
  --help           Show this message and exit.

Configuration

Voice relay is built on top of ovos-simple-listener and ovos-audio, it uses the default OpenVoiceOS configuration ~/.config/mycroft/mycroft.conf

Supported plugin types:

Plugin Type	Description	Required	Link
Microphone	Captures voice input	Yes	Microphone
VAD	Voice Activity Detection	Yes	VAD
WakeWord	Detects wake words for interaction	Yes	WakeWord
G2P	grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P), used to simulate mouth movements	No	G2P
Media Playback Plugins	Enables media playback (e.g., "play Metallica")	No	Media Playback Plugins
OCP Plugins	Provides playback support for URLs (e.g., YouTube)	No	OCP Plugins
PHAL	Provides platform-specific support (e.g., Mark 1)	No	PHAL