For those of us still impatiently waiting, what is your experience so far with “Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition”?
—- I ordered just 2 hours in but the vendor I used sold out in 21 minutes. I just found out I also missed the restock, so hopefully some time next month.
It’s great! I ran Mycroft for years and this is such a better experience overall. I really love the ability to create custom sentences to trigger whatever. There are features I’m still hoping for like some kind of reminder things so I can finally drop google assistant for good. This is a great product for enthusiasts and signals even better products in the future as the ecosystem matures. It’s a good time to be interested in voice assistants.
I have it. If i say Basement lights off, it takes 15 seconds and 70% of the time says Sorry I couldn’t understand. My kid thinks it is very funny tho.
I am using a few of self-built assistants using https://github.com/formatBCE/Koala-Satellite/tree/main - which was heavily inspired and uses a lot of very similar hardware to HA Voice. I have to say my speakers turned out pretty great.
Does this speaker require nabu casa cloud stuff?
The media player platform is “nabu” and a ton of things based on that. If nabu isn’t a requirement then maybe I will rebase by own spin on them (using an AV receiver with RCA cables instead of built in speakers) and see if it improves it is some way!
None of them required many cloud specifically, but you have to provide it with STT and TTS engines. You can use other 3rd party or run it on your own hardware, but to do it effectively (have it transcribe your voice in a second instead of 20) you need a GPU.
