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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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[–] 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