Hermes Voice

Hermes Voice: Talk to Hermes Agent profiles out loud through Home Assistant Assist on smart speakers.

Hermes Voice connects voice assistants directly to custom Hermes Agent profiles through Home Assistant Assist. It uses Home Assistant integration components and a setup skill to route spoken dialogue to a Hermes profile while maintaining conversation history. The system streams replies to start speech early and cleans text for speech output. It supports voice devices running custom firmware like echo-dot-assist, alongside standard Home Assistant pipelines. Users can run it with Home Assistant and Hermes hosts to interact with AI agents using custom personalities and tools.

Hermes Voice at a glance

Best for: Software engineer
Runs on: Home Assistant, macOS, Windows, Linux, self-hosted, open source
Pricing: Free
Released: November 2026
Category: AI agent tool
Website: github.com/majorminorlabs/hermes-voice

Key features

Home Assistant conversation agent integration
Streamed replies for early speech start
Wake word training pipeline for microWakeWord
Session management by conversation or device
Customizable voice instruction and fallbacks
Support for custom Hermes agent profiles

Use it for

Talking out loud to a Hermes Agent profile
Using an old Amazon Echo as a voice assistant
Controlling smart home devices through an AI agent

Companions

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Defuddle — Turns messy pages into clean text for the agent.
SkillClaw — Improves the skill library from real sessions.

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Hermes Browser Extension — Connects active web context directly to the local Hermes runtime.
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