Pine64 launch $50 smart speaker for Home Assistant tinkerers

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Pine64 launch $50 smart speaker for Home Assistant tinkerers

Open-hardware manufacturer Pine64 has launched a $50 smart speaker that runs open-source software on a RISC-V chip. PineVoice (previously known as PineVox) is built around a Bouffalo Lab BL606P RISC-V SoC with integrated Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 5.0 and Zigbee radio interfaces. It's equipped with dual microphone array and speaker with support for 'local wake word detection', and top-mounted buttons allow you to mute (with LED indicator), start/stop and adjust volume. The factory-shipped firmware is built on Alibaba's open-source YoC platform and runs the Wyoming Satellite protocol, which turns the device into a local microphone and speaker for a self-hosted, Linux-based Home [...]

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Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/06/pine64-pinevoice-riscv-smart-speaker-launch Jun 24, 2026, 05:24 PM