Had to laugh a bit at the caveat about powerful hardware. Was bracing myself for GPU and then it says N100 lol
The era of open voice assistants
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#82I wonder how this compares to the Respeaker 2 https://wiki.seeedstudio.com/ReSpeaker_Mic_Array_v2.0/
The respeaker has 4 mics and can easily cancel out the noise introduced by a custom external speaker
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#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's worse though when you need to add a ton of custom sensors at once, e.g., for properly automating a Solar PV + Battery solution.
But like, isn't YAML still available for configuring things? Have they gotten rid of any YAML configs, with things that are now UI only? My understanding was that they've just been building more UI for configuring things and so now default recommend people away from YAML (which seems like the right choice to me).
> But like, isn't YAML still available for configuring things?
For most, yes. But for some included integrations it's UI-only (all of those I've had to migrate, it's been a single click + comment out lines, and the config has been a breeze (stuff like just an api key/IP address + 1-2 optional params).
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#84Had to laugh a bit at the caveat about powerful hardware. Was bracing myself for GPU and then it says N100 lol
I mean, comparatively many people are hosting their home Assistant on an raspberry Pi so it is relatively powerful :D
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#85I'm actually really excited for this! I noticed recently there weren't any good open source hardware projects for voice assistants with a focus on privacy. There's another project I've been thinking about where I think the privacy aspect is Important, and figuring out a good hardware stack has been a Process. The project I want to work on isn't exactly a voice assistant, but same ultimate hardware requirements Someth…
Not really sure what the benefit of group buy would be here. Nuba Casa, the company that supports the development of home assistant and developed this product, already has a few products they sell. They had this stocked all over the world for the announcement and it sold out. I assume they had already made a few thousand. They will get more stock now and it will sell just like the other things they make. Any profit from this will go back into development of Home Assistant.
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#86I wonder how this compares to the Respeaker 2 https://wiki.seeedstudio.com/ReSpeaker_Mic_Array_v2.0/ The respeaker has 4 mics and can easily cancel out the noise introduced by a custom external speaker
I don't just want the hardware, I want the software too. I want something that will do STT on my speech, send the text to an API endpoint I control, and be able to either speak the text I give it, or live stream an audio response to the speakers.
That's the part I can't do on my own, and then I'll take care of the LLMs myself.
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#87I don't fully understand the cloud upsell. I have a beefy GPU. I would like to run the "more advanced" models locally. By "I don't fully understand," I mean just that. There's a lot of marketing copy, but there's a lot I'd like to understand better before plopping down $$$ for a unit. The answers might be reasonable. Ideally, I'd be able to experiment with a headset first, and if it works well, upgrade to the $59 uni…
This device is just the mic/speaker/wakeword part. It connects to home-assistant to do the decoding and automation.
You can test it right now by downloading home-assistant and running it on a pi or a VM. You can run all the voice assist stuff locally if you want. There are services for the voice to text, text to voice and what they call intents which are simple things like "turn off the lights in the office".
The cloud offering from Nuba Casa, not only funds the development of Home Assistant but also give remote access if you want it. As part of that you can choses to offload some of the voice/text services to their cloud so that if you are just running it on a Pi it will still be fast.
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#89What I don't like is that most voice assistances perform really bad on my native language so I don't use them at all. For english speakers yes, but for all other not so much. I guess it will get better.
That is one of the major things that Home Assistant are trying to fix. They have groups working on most languages and are adding them to their open as they improve.
https://www.home-assistant.io/voice_control/contribute-voice
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#90sorry if this question takes away from the great strives the team went through but wouldn't it be much easier (hardware wise) to jailbreak one of the existing great hardware thingies like Apple HomePod or the Google one or Alexa?
I don't think they are that easy to jail break but I may be wrong. I think they wanted to create an open device that people could build from rather than just a hacked up alexa.