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
  • walden@wetshav.ingEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I’m interested in all of these replies because I have a preview edition coming in the mail. I’m tired of Google listening to everything despite claiming not to.

    • Dave@lemmy.nzEnglish
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      2 days 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.worksEnglish
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        2 days 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.

          • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            1 day ago

            I have both but just basic options. Like with WLED lights (if you’re familiar), I’ll have buttons for turning them on and off and controlling the brightness, and ignore everything else light presets, color, patterns, segments, night light, etc because there isnt a great way to list them all in a compact space especially when you have 10 separate WLED devices. Typically I’ll just use the WLED app if I want to do anything outside of basic functionality.

            Though, reading some of the other comments here, it sounds like voice control is nowhere near as far along as I imagined it was so maybe my laziness will prevail and I’ll attempt setting it up at some indeterminate time in the future.