Founder Home Assistant here. Let me know if anyone has any questions.
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For now, though, you may want to check out OVOS: https://openvoiceos.com/
I have a general question about HA: the main issues I’ve had with it have had to do with specifically only two points.
1. The recorder module has brought the system to a crawl when a single rogue device on my network kept spamming MQTT with status updates about power consumption and eventually killed the SD card it was running on. Some aggressive ignore statements in the config fixed the issue but I still see this as a major pain point as there is no indication of anything happening. Is there any plan to introduce any kind of housekeeping into the recorder module besides periodic purges (which in my case were not enough to actually keep the system running)?
2. I like to have control over my computers so I did not want to use a pre-installed image of HA for RPi. But the alternative is a cumbersome process of installing it in a Python virtual env and keeping things updated which is not ideal. Are there any plans for improving this installation path? Or alternatively some sort of advanced version of the HA image which would allow someone like me full control over the base OS while keeping the benefits of the cohesive self-updating HA distribution?
2. We offer VM images if you want to keep flexibility but also benefit from all our work on an integrated system. You can also do a Supervised installation, but then it's your own responsibility to keep the host OS running the requirements of HA.
Works really well, updating is low effort (but not automatic) but you could probably set something up if you wanted to pretty easily.
I also like that you are directly supporting ESPHome and I'll definitely take that route and build something nice.
However, for the more casual users, are you thinking about releasing an off-the-shelf "voice assistant" device?
We're still exploring different ML on the edge chips to help with wake word and audio processing. One hard requirement that we have is that the tooling is openly available, so that anyone can convert an AI model and run it on the chip. We don't accept tooling to be available as a website or under NDA. That challenge is harder than we expected!
I hope you saw the recent demo of a ChatGPT plug-in for HA that might add a lot of functionality to HA if there is the ability to use it to construct action plans and then execute them.
https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/12l10se/intr...
Fun fact: we supported Almond (later Genie), the IoT AI from Stanford which they released a couple of years ago. It would convert natural language into their ThingTalk language, which could do things like you mention. It was not popular at all and Stanford ended up shutting it down.
My entity names can contain the English or other text that just won't be picked up by the speech to text, so if there was a way to record a couple of pronunciations for an entity name, and home assistant would fine-tune whisper on them in the background it would be wonderful !
Wondering if you all are thinking about multiple remote microphones, and choosing which microphone will respond to the speaker?
Ideally, I'd love to have multiple microphones/speakers throughout the house, all of which can listen and answer, however, only the one that hears me the clearest/loudest/etc. actually answers.
Make sense?
If I toggle a light I wouldn’t want it to execute the command twice haha