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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[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 3 weeks ago

I think it's a pretty cool toy to play with. It mostly gets used for setting timers and playing music, but you can add Home Assistant automations that trigger when you say certain things. Lot's to play with if that's your idea of fun!

[-] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

I think itd be a great way to control everything rather than spending hours and hours making dashboards while trying to include the 20 different entities each device comes with without it looking like a jumbled, convoluted mess. "Computer turn off the TV" "Computer turn on the kitchen lights" "Computer open the blinds" "Computer set the thermostat to 73." I dont really use voice commands anywhere else but this sounds like it could be really useful. I gotta start looking at how to enable all this.

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