68
How's your HA voice assistant going? (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
40 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

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
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 3 points 9 months ago (3 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.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
    •
  • [–] 2 points 9 months 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.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    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?

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •