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Home Assistant 2025.7: That's the question (www.home-assistant.io)

submitted 3 days ago by thehatfox@lemmy.world to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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[–] Oisteink@feddit.nl 2 points 3 days ago (3 children)

The voice focus is fucking el-el-lame

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Removing dependency on using cloud voice like Google or Amazon is awesome. I wouldn't use voice if that's how I had to do it, and I really like voice control for my HA ecosystem.

[–] Oisteink@feddit.nl 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

To me it’s very gimmicky and requires a lot of work. It probably fits English speakers better as I’ve not had any luck using local voice.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

You do need a bit of horsepower to run Whisper locally. A Nabu Casa subscription gets you their voice processing, and it's quick. Granted, it's not local but I trust them a pile more than I trust either of the other two, and if I had to I'd buy a GPU and run it locally, that's their focus anyway.

[–] swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Agree. I do not speak to the machine. It does not speak to me. It is a happy arrangement.

I can see the use as an accessibility aid, but nothing more.

[–] nogooduser@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I use it to do things at the same time as other things. I can add something to the shopping list when I’m cooking or turn on the fan when I’m getting ready for bed without stopping what I’m doing to click buttons. I find that it’s really good for things that can’t easily be automated but you also can’t (or don’t want to) put on a physical button.

I actually use Alexa as I haven’t had time to investigate HA voice control but the principle is the same.

[–] swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

No Alexa here for more reasons than just being a voice assistant.

None of them would particularly useful to me even if I didn't hate them, due to a lot of hearing loss. Real voices are hard enough and the ones from a speaker are worse. Anything from a PA system is unintelligible.

Most things we have automated with sensors, schedules and buttons. Not much else to be done that can't be done with a few seconds of infrequent manual input, or shortcut software button on device.

I think I'm dead set on this. It's nice to see others getting along, but I'll never want it.

[–] med@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago

All I have ever wanted from a machine is to be able to say, "I'm busy right now, but I've had a thought; here - hold this for me"...

...without it telling anyone me and my partner's batting average.

[–] B0rax@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago

I guess they have watched a lot of Ironman and want to recreate Jarvis at some point