Voice Kit 4
Neil Haddley • December 14, 2025
Automatically Boot your Raspberry Pi 3 into Google Voice Assistant
Automatically Boot your Raspberry Pi 3 into Google Voice Assistant
I opened a Terminal on the Raspberry Pi Desktop.
I created the service file by typing:
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1sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/assist.service
I copied this text to the assist.service file.
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1[Unit] 2Description=Assist @ reboot 3 4[Service] 5Environment=XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 6#ExecStart=/home/pi/AIY-projects-python/src/examples/voice/main.py 7ExecStart=/home/pi/AIY-projects-python/src/examples/voice/assistant_library_with_local_commands_demo.py 8Restart=always 9User=pi 10StandardOutput=syslog 11StandardError=syslog 12SyslogIdentifier=assist 13 14[Install] 15WantedBy=multi-user.target
Control-X to exit, and Y to save. Press Enter to complete the save.
I enabled the service (for next boot) by typing in the terminal:
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1sudo systemctl enable assist.service
I started the service manually by typing:
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1sudo systemctl start assist.service
I checked the status of the service by typing:
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1sudo systemctl status assist.service
sudo systemctl status assist.service
I rebooted my Raspberry Pi