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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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[–] undrwater@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (3 children)

The biggest challenge, in my experience, is finding hardware that heats you well, and you can hear well.

On my PCs USB mic when I'm sitting directly on front of it, everything works quite well. Once I start stepping away, things start to get funky.

[–] tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The biggest challenge, in my experience, is finding hardware that heats you well, and you can hear well.

Maybe a hairdryer?

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Okay now answer: What gets wetter as it dries?

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 3 days ago

Home Assistant sells units with duel microphones that aren't too expensive and work relatively well. But the local voice recognition wasn't great last I tried.

[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

It's probably a mono directional mic, or just narrow focus. Omni directional mics I only know about in the musical sense, and they aren't cheap. But I'm sure there are inexpensive versions