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[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 11 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

For anyone with existing Home Assistant setup, the Home Assistant Voice Preview is pretty good alternative, when it comes to voice control of HA. The setup is very easy. If you want conversational functionality, you could even hook it up to an LLM, cloud or local. It can also be used for media playback and it's got an aux out port.

I used to use Google Home Mini for voice control of Home Assistant. The Voice Preview replaced that rather nicely.

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 hours ago

The difference between a pi and open voice?

[-] Cyber@feddit.uk 1 points 2 hours ago

I'm using a Pi Zero as a voice satellite with an additional mic hat and a speaker hanging off the audio output and it's ... ok

There's definitely much lower WAF with this option

The voice assistant has built-in audio which appears to be high (enough) quality and considering it's case, power, etc, not to mention funding the advancement of open source voice control, it's just overall “better”

If you've got a Pi lying around with a mic & speaker, definitely give it a go

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 hours ago

No idea, haven't used those. The HA Voice is open source through and through.

[-] cynar@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

That's tempting, and not a hideous price either.

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