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How is it going with “Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition”? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
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For those of us still impatiently waiting, what is your experience so far with “Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition”?

—- I ordered just 2 hours in but the vendor I used sold out in 21 minutes. I just found out I also missed the restock, so hopefully some time next month.

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[–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

In the end, I guess I trust Nabu Casa infinitely more than Google/Amazon. I'll do without if it means having their wiretaps in my house. At least HA is trying to give us local voice assist. That was never going to happen with the others.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    You misunderstand my statement. The way i see people making this device better is by either having thousands of dollars of gpu hardware and running their own robust local model or sending their data off to something like chat gpt. The first i have no issue with, if only i had the budget for, the second feels worse to me than alexa. I know amazon knows a lot about me, i don't need to start feeding all my data to an additional cloud entity.

    I love everything Nabu Casa is doing and even though i don't use any of the perks it offers i still pay for their monthly service to continue supporting them.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    If you have a sub to HA Cloud, you should be able to use their Cloud Voice service. I find that's less than a second of latency on any commands I give my Voice assist.

    My point was just that I guess I trust NC with that, but I wouldn't do the same with the other two. But I'm still moving to local when I get sufficient hardware to equal that latency.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's my understanding that yes, that is an option but i'm in the camp that any step i make at this point will be towards being as cloudless and local as possible with services like this. I agree that i'd trust them over the others but i don't want to have to pick between a poor user experience, a large hardware cost, or trusting SOME company.

    I've made automation for all of my most commonly said phrases and when using those it works but that limits it to only the things i've already thought to key in. Not very ideal but it works well enough.

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