Comment on Amazon Alexa showing just how much they have embraced enshittification
Dave@lemmy.nz 3 days agoNo, but if you want a voice assistant that you can tinker with but without expectations, I’ve been enjoying the Home Assistant Voice Preview (preview here refers to it not being consumer ready, a beta or similar).
It does need a Home Assistant setup first, it’s not a stand alone speaker.
Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
I’ve been playing around with it, it’s ok for home stuff, but no on-device functions.
Dave@lemmy.nz 2 days ago
It does all the basics. Can play music via jellyfin, spotify or any of the supported Music Assistant sources (preferably plug in better speakers). Can set timers. I have it announce various reminders (put the recycling/rubbish bin out, etc).
One thing it can do that I don’t think other smart speakers can is proactive things. When the room gets cold, I have it say “It’s getting cold in here, would you like to turn on the heating?”, then it listens for a response and you can reply yes/no.
I’ve also been playing with connecting it with frigate events, such as “I can see Grandma on the doorbell camera”, or “I can see your Ariya on the driveway camera”.
Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Thats cool. Maybe my experience has been tainted by the fact that I run piper/whisper on the server’s cpu, and by consequence, it’s slow as fuck.
Dave@lemmy.nz 2 days ago
Oh I’m using Home Assistant Cloud as I worked out day 1 there’s no chance of it recognising my voice. I would like to switch to local processing when it gets good enough though.