Nintendo doesn’t sell their hardware at a loss.

You can do that without giving money to Nintendo.

Why would you give money to Nintendo?

There is a hat for the raspberry pi that does local voice recognition that you can use with Rhasspy or another setup.

But, I haven’t really messed with it since they started rolling out voice recognition within HA. My plans for a HAL9000 system are on pause until I finish my microchip pet feeding enclosures project.

Yeah, ODROID partnered with them to create an off the shelf product. It’s pretty pricy, though, but honestly you could run it on a pi 3b+ for pretty cheap.

Sounds like you should check out Homeassistant.

I hope it is for their sake. Some guy just got 10 years for a script he left that caused an outage.