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Amazon plans to give Alexa an AI overhaul — and a monthly subscription price (www.cnbc.com)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

So I got curious and did a little research. Home assistant itself provides several tutorials for setting up voice controls. There are several options to choose from. The simplest to get up and running seems like signing up for home assistant cloud and paying a monthly fee, although that's also the least private and most costly option. At the other extreme you can go entirely DIY by picking up a cheap dev board for around $14, flashing it with ESPHome and hooking it up to your local voice assistant setup.

I haven't personally used any of this as I've said previously, but everything I've read seems reasonable and it sounds like it's the generally accepted way to go about doing these things with Home Assistant.

Edit: Reading the reviews of the ATOM Echo it seems like a lot of people complain about the mic and speaker quality and issues with it going into sleep mode. A more expensive but possibly better option might be one of the ESP32 S3 Box models flashed with ESPHome, although once again I have not personally used any of this so I can't say whether the complaints about the ATOM Echo hold water or if the S3 Box is better. There also seems to be a Assist app for at least Android, so if you don't want a dedicated hardware device you might be able to make do with just your phone.

Edit 2: This also looks like it might be a great option. It looks a little more polished and ready to go, and is supported by ESPHome.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Great information, thank you.