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Today i installed

Piper+Whisper+ChatGPT 3.5 turbo

Its crazy how it works. it even knows the entities without any configuration, smart.

read a bit about local ai model, but skipped the plan for now.
looks like these LMA text models need lot of ram to run. my HA tinybox only have 4GB. need to find a machine with 4 slots first, then put 4x16gb or more in it (what i can get for cheap) to test.
so for now chatgpt api should be fine. fired some commands, wasted 1 cent already :D



have you tried local lma ?
 
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Yeah, I like the idea of local AI. Have to admit, Google/Alexa did a good job in answering questions and bring info to us. Just hate their data banking and invasion of privacy. I know it is hard to get away from all of this without unplugging but I am still trying...

@duplo
So what mic/speaker are you using? I have noticed my Box-3 has to be rebooted alot, I may just need new firmware...
 
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Looks like the GPT AI is too dumb.

i have several bathrooms on different floors, it knows that i have a bathroom in second floor, but i only have a bathtube in the other.
so it tries to turn on entities for things that does not exist and also the entities does not exist.

:confused: disappointing

also if i ask "has the bathtube a seperate light" it turns the light on :D , but i didnt ask for it
 
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Ordered something new to try:


A dollar short and a day late, it is on backorder, just hope not 6 months like the ESP32-S3-BOX was...



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This one sounds very promising, thank you fort sharing...I like how they separated the hardware for future expansion instead of having to buy a whole new board.

Been reading others who are using this board already...you can house the Onju in a Google Min Gen 2...


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I tried using HA Voice Assistant very early in the project lifetime. Encountered far too many issues while they were going through their inevitable growing pains stage. Had been a Rhasspy user for several years before it, and it was reasonably mature. I will continue to watch this thread to get your opinions on the state/status through 2025.
 
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I am very, very impressed with the speaker background noise cancelation on this. Well not actual noise cancelation but being able to detect music that was invoked through HA and temporarily lowering it so you can address the voice assist. Very smart...
 
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I tried using HA Voice Assistant very early in the project lifetime. Encountered far too many issues while they were going through their inevitable growing pains stage. Had been a Rhasspy user for several years before it, and it was reasonably mature. I will continue to watch this thread to get your opinions on the state/status through 2025.
Yeah, I am very excited with the growth of local voice assistants. I have a box of Google Mini's that I don't plan to use anymore. Tired of Big Tech. listening to us and gathering all MY Data...

Been playing with the Echo Atom and the ESP32-S3-BOX's and No they are not a replacement for Alexa/Google but I use them only to turn On/Off lights. The new Sattelite1 looks very promising and I love the local AI implementation.

2025 may be the Actual Year of Voice...
 
Kewl, on it's way:

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But really looking at Sattilite1, pretty sure this will be the Voice Assistant Speaker I will be using...will try the PE first...
 
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My Home Assistant Voice PE arrived today...
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It was very easy to setup...Actually used my phone's Home Assistant App to communicate to it. The Discovery in Devices worked with no problem. Since I already have Whisper and Piper installed the PE worked right away.

My first impressions, this actually works much, much better than the Atom Echo and the ESP32 S3. It picks up my voice like my Google Assistants (Home and Minis) did. The speaker is definitely louder but still has that voice in a tunnel to it. Alexa and Google have better voices/responses, they sound more human where as this sounds robotic...but I personally don't care too much about this.

I actually like it's design, it is square about 3 1/2 inches square and almost an inch high. So not to small nor too big. When you speak to it you get a sound and blue circling lights. Very easy to see. There is an 3.5 audio out jack for an external speaker. Also there is a slide button on the side, when engaged a read circle light comes on with a sound. Thinking this turns off the Mic., will need to check...

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The response time it faster too.

Here it is in Home Assistant
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So less than an hour testing, I will say this works very good, almost great. I could live with this Assistant Speaker...

We will see more of these devices coming out. We use to ask Google to play a radio station we liked over all our Google Minis, it was nice to hear music all over the house, think we had 5 or 6 Google Assist Speakers in all our major rooms.
 
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Have you seen this?


Thanks, I have not.

Since we moved in our new home I have not connected any of my Google speakers. Not really planning to since Home Assistant's Assist runs locally without any cloud service.

Looks like they just released Gemini 2.0 yesterday to everyone...

 
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So I ordered a second Home Assist PE Voice. This one works for what I want at this time. Plus the wife approves, she did not like the Echo Atom nor the ESP32 S3. I am with her on those. The ESP32-S3 I will leave in my office, the Echo Atoms will be retired...they are more like having to use a microphone and their speaker, very hard to hear, there has to be zero noise in the room.



So I did get my Weather Voice Enabled when asking Ok Nabu, What's the weather? But need to work on using more entities, by default I only get local temperature, Fahrenheit (F) and condition (Clear, Cloudy, Sunny, etc.) ex. 68 degrees F and cloudy
Funny but the F is announced and on the ESP32 S3 it sounds like 68 degrees Fing cloudy. LOL, What did she just say? LOL

I know if I add AI, it will fix all of this but will only allow local AI, no cloud AI...the whole reason I am going this route is to get away from Google AI or other cloud AI's. Otherwise I could easily use Alexa/Google like I did in the pass...

So I can presently turn On/Off lights, get local time and now local weather thru the default weather integration in HA:
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