I’m experimenting with Home Assistant [1] for home automation and adding a voice assistant to it, using Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition [2].
I had Home Assistant installed in a VM from a while ago, when I was trying to have some more advanced conditions for alerts, but then I stopped using it. Now I spun it up again and connected the Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition.
I went with Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition, because I wanted something that was pre-built. I don’t want to mess around with a Raspberry Pi or something like that.
Here are my observations:
- While running on my little VM, the voice assistant is slow. Turning on a light takes 12 seconds, while it’s instantaneous with Alexa.
- The voice recognition gets triggered when a recording says the wakeword.
- The voice assistant right now is pretty dumb. All it can do is turning things on and off, basically.
I realize I can improve all of this. I might have to get a dedicated computer with a better GPU for this.
