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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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[โ€“] rowinxavier@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Boom!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0vjbdWdnaI

Exactly what you wanted for Google Nest devices, a simple drop in replacement PCB. Very cool!

[โ€“] ItsPronouncedZed@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 months ago

That's fantastic! I have exactly one of these Nests. I might give it a go. I hope the music playback can be resolved, and I'm crossing my fingers that a similar board is released for Echos. Thanks for sharing.