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How's your HA voice assistant going? (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 days ago by chaospatterns@lemmy.world to c/homeassistant@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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[–] barkingspiders@infosec.pub 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Forgot to add, something I really want to figure out is how to do reminders with it. I'm stuck using Gemini on my phone for that and I'd really love to find a way to do that in HA if anyone has any tips.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 3 days ago

Similar to the other user's response, I use the calendar integration, then add the things on the calendar (say, putting the recycling out to be collected). Then I have an automation that will read out a reminder at the time it is scheduled for in the calendar.

So the evening before recycling pickup every fortnight, it pipes up and says "Reminder: Recycling" or whatever.

Works pretty well for these regular reoccurring things. I haven't tried using it for one off reminders, and you can't say "ok nabu, remind me to wish Steve a happy birthday on the 27th of February" or anything like that. Still, I'm pretty happy.

I seem to remember needing a bit of playing to get the notification working, I'm happy to look up and post what I have in my automation if needed.

[–] undrwater@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Me too, so I started looking around. https://community.home-assistant.io/t/calendar-notifications-actions/612326

I don't have time right now, but will this work?

[–] barkingspiders@infosec.pub 1 points 4 days ago

that looks promising, I think I can see a path forward there, I still need to dig into the new calendar functionality, thanks for sharing!