How's your HA voice assistant going? (lemmy.world)

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If you're using the Home Assistant voice assistant mechanism (not Alexa/Google/etc.) how's it working for you?

Given there's a number of knobs that you can use, what do you use and what works well?

Wake word model. There's the default models and custom
Conservation agent and model
Speech to text models (e.g. speech-to-phrase or whisper)
Text to speech models

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[-] undrwater@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

The biggest challenge, in my experience, is finding hardware that heats you well, and you can hear well.

On my PCs USB mic when I'm sitting directly on front of it, everything works quite well. Once I start stepping away, things start to get funky.

[-] tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 2 points 3 weeks ago

The biggest challenge, in my experience, is finding hardware that heats you well, and you can hear well.

Maybe a hairdryer?

[-] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

Okay now answer: What gets wetter as it dries?

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 3 weeks ago

Home Assistant sells units with duel microphones that aren't too expensive and work relatively well. But the local voice recognition wasn't great last I tried.

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