Home Assistant's first Voice device

[@dfgdfg_]

The only review I trust. Purchased one to try, thank you Vaclav 🙌

[@tazanelli]

Good thorough review as usual - Ordered one and hopefully the ad-hoc alarms are added in the future as well as some basic built in functions like calculator, or Fahrenheit to Celsius conversions (very useful in a kitchen) without having to go out to a LLM.

[@bruxy70]

I use LLM, so the conversions are no issue. Just tested. The calculations used to be an issue, notvsure how this one handles it. Depends on the model I suppose. You can also define custom Entencea and run a script to do tý hat for you.

[@martyb3783]

Great video. Thanks for making it.

[@Robert-cd2ht]

Vaclav stop setting an alarm for everyone at 6:30 AM

[@lawrencemanning]

If this is equivalent hardware and software to the Respeaker Lite, which I believe it is, its utility will be depend entirely on who is talking to it. With my southern England accent “okay nabu” is fairly hopeless. And the Mrs and my boy can hardly ever get it to trigger.

[@bruxy70]

Don't think so ibb.co/tDtMPkC

[@lawrencemanning]

It’s the same XMOS chip though isn’t it? Two mics, ESP32-S3?

[@bruxy70]

@@lawrencemanning Suppose. I do not think it is the same SW, they were traning the wake work quite extensively, plus you can choose different wake words, I even think you can train your own if it is worth the hassle for you. Anyway, you are a native speaker, I am not, and it works for me. So...