What a time to be alive! Smart stuff everywhere. Your television, the light, temperature – every day the amount of „smart“ things increases. First they were controlled with buttons. Nowadays you can use an app for almost everything. The next step? Of course – your voice. Every „big player“ has its own voice assistant. The problem of all those assistants is, that they claim to require internet to work. Thanks to companies like Snips you can show that this is not true as the whole recognition and most of the actions work without any internet at all. I build an offline smart speaker with a Raspberry Pi 3 A+ and Respeaker 4Mic-Array which is working really nice. The only problem in this setup is the super-low WAF 😄.