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My initial experience with setting up a voice assistant - attempting to pause pi-hole via voice "stop ad blocker" (lemmy.nz)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Dave@lemmy.nz to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
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I was trying to get it to pause Pi-hole on request. I'm using Home Assistant Cloud (Nabu Casa) for speech to text, and have also got OpenAI plugged into it for if it doesn't recognise a command. The screen shot is from the debug logs that I eventually found after struggling to work out why it wasn't running my automation.

I'm using the new Home Assistant Voice Preview. Don't get me wrong, overall very happy with it for the price point, but for some reason the cloud speech recognition (I believe powered by Google) is very good at understanding me until I start trying to talk about ad blocking.

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[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 29 points 2 months ago

Use a local, open source voice recognition and the problems with understanding ad blocking related phrases should disappear. 😁

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 18 points 2 months ago

It's running on a Pi 4, they highly recommend cloud in this case because it's not very powerful.

But I also speak with a New Zealand accent, and could not get it to understand a single word I said until I connected it to their cloud option.

The OpenAI integration coupled with cloud text to speech/speech to text has actually been fantastic. It works a lot better than I was expecting based on their warnings of it being very early days. The main problem is the data from home assistant is fed in as a prompt, and so to keep it short it only sends the states. Data stored as attributes is not accessible, so I'm making helpers, scripts, and automations for the assistant to trigger in order to output more data.

[-] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

You can get the same from a local whisperer model to be clear.

[-] nis@feddit.dk 24 points 2 months ago

This is why, even though very convenient, you should never integrate your time machine with Home Assistant.

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 10 points 2 months ago

Don't worry, while I integrated my time machine with Home Assistant, it's not exposed to the voice assistant so in theory it shouldn't be able to send me back in time to stop Hitler.

[-] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

Are we concerned about changing the timeline or something? Why is the goal to not stop Hitler?

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 2 months ago

Oh shit this could well be a bootstrap paradox where I need to stop Hitler in order for me to be here in the future to go back to stop Hitler!

[-] spitfire@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Because then we would still have Stalin and the Red Alert scenario. Somehow I believe that would be worse.

[-] CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

I'm sorry Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.

[-] Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 months ago

Make an alternarive trigger phrase "stop Hitler"?

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 18 points 2 months ago

The problem is it seems to be different every time. Here's my list so far:

screen shot with list of different phrases - stop ad blocker, stop hit box, stop at locker, stop head blocking, and more, about 10 of them

[-] whodatdair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 months ago

Stop at locker 🤣

[-] Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'm really sorry you're experiencing this but it's at least a little funny how botched speech processing can still be.

I don't know enough to really help you, but good luck <3

[-] Courantdair@jlai.lu 7 points 2 months ago

It was fast though

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 6 points 2 months ago

Maybe it should have thought about it a bit more.

[-] forbiddenlake@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Reminds me of years ago I wanted to play Lush, the radio station from SomaFM.

Literally could not get anything but Rush. And I have zero Rush in my library.

[-] DynamoSunshirtSandals@possumpat.io 4 points 2 months ago

Maybe you should give them a try. Signals is a really approachable starting point, IMO, but 2112 is a better hard sell.

Just don't listen to Power Windows, Hold Your Fire, or Presto until you're heard their hard prog stuff. I like those albums, too, but things got a little weird when Getty went hard in the synths.

[-] uniquethrowagay@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago

This is exactly what I would expect a Rush fan to answer. But seriously, they are great. Sadly I'm too young so I never had the opportunity to experience them live. 3 hour shows of that quality after 40 years of touring is absolutely amazing.

[-] wulrus@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

The leading all but one languages help to me a Lord with Google assistant not your relevant

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