Voice – Chapter 7 – Supercharged wake words and timers
This chapter might be one of the most feature-packed yet, bringing the highly requested timer feature and major improvements to wake words, along with experimental technology that even outclasses big tech’s voice assistants. Join Mike, JLo, and Kevin in this stream to hear all the details!
Want to read about it instead? Here’s the Voice Chapter 7 blog that goes over the content of the live stream. https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/06/26/voice-chapter-7/
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I love the work going into this and I am super grateful for everything the Nabu Case and the volunteers do. I'm a little concerned with the way timers are being introduced. Shouldn't services and entites be made first, and then voice intents be introduced that works on those entites and services? I feel like the project could fall into a trap of having features that work in voice that don't work elsewhere. Voice should just be another interface to the HA backend. I know you mentioned that further integration with HA is coming, but it just seems like the development is happening in the wrong area or order. I'm sure there's good reasons it's happening this way but if we don't have an answer for "transient entites" yet, shouldn't that be solved first before putting this functionality in the voice layer?
Continued conversation is so great ! Please hope it’s going to be released as soon as possible
I am currently working on a kit for raspberry pi zero 2w with the hat and a nice speaker. I would love to get more info on that noice cancelling chip.
Just thinking through these assistants. Is it possible for example to have a esp 3s box set up in my sons room, using ai conversation make that device only use a specific assistant ie one that has prompting to call my son by his name, and respond in a fun way that a 12yr old boy would like. And only allow it to control only the things in his room? If that makes sense?
Great job so far. I hope you’ll be able to eliminate the awkward pause currently necessary after the wake word. I’m sure that if my Echo from 10 years ago can react to my merciless prompts without any delay after “Alexa”, you’ll pull it off too! 👍
Decade of voice is coming along well!
Timers are awesome! Great progress! Being able to show the timers on a dashboard is important to me personally. Exposing the timers as an array of timers like the Alexa plug-in does could be a good place to reference.
Excited to see what you can do Kevin working full time on this!
Please please improve media interaction (specifically being and to play YouTube by voice) and better official voice hardware with good mics
Is nabu Casa going to make a smart speaker
For the next streams, could you please consider to somehow level the volumes? Jlo is very loud, while Mike was hard to understand. This would be a big improvement for the generally awesome talks 😊
What a fabulous voice release. Super stoked about microWakeWords running multiple models even on the old ESP chips. And timers! multiple! Thanks team and welcome to Nabu Casa Kevin 🙂