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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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[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 4 days 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.