For those of us still impatiently waiting, what is your experience so far with “Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition”?

—- I ordered just 2 hours in but the vendor I used sold out in 21 minutes. I just found out I also missed the restock, so hopefully some time next month.

  • TedZanzibar@feddit.ukEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I ordered mine the day they were announced, right before Christmas at a period that I was enjoying tinkering with, and optimising my HA setup. I was looking forward to doing the same with this over the break.

    Unfortunately they didn’t actually ship it until after Christmas and by the time it arrived I was in full slob mode with little desire to sit at a desk. Even now I’m still trying to get myself back into a working mindset.

    All of which is to say I added it to HA and have done nothing with it since.

      • TedZanzibar@feddit.ukEnglish
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        3 months ago

        You’re not wrong but the local whisper(?) engine is really slow running on my NAS. I have an N100 box that runs Plex but I haven’t found much to suggest it would be any quicker running from there due to a lack of OpenVino support. Standard Whisper can be compiled to use it but it’s potentially no quicker than faster-whisper without it.

        And that’s where I’m up to really. Every time I think about getting some different versions installed and doing benchmarks my brain goes back to Christmas slob mode and fogs over.