diff --git a/source/_posts/2022-12-20-year-of-voice.markdown b/source/_posts/2022-12-20-year-of-voice.markdown index 974b0fa3918..77c28d40063 100644 --- a/source/_posts/2022-12-20-year-of-voice.markdown +++ b/source/_posts/2022-12-20-year-of-voice.markdown @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ _**TL;DR**: It is our goal for 2023 to let users control Home Assistant in their - [Year of the Voice - Chapter 1](https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/01/26/year-of-the-voice-chapter-1/) (January 26, 2023) - [Year of the Voice - Chapter 2](/blog/2023/04/27/year-of-the-voice-chapter-2/) (April 27, 2023) + - [Year of the Voice - Chapter 3](/blog/2023/07/20/year-of-the-voice-chapter-3/) (July 20, 2023)
diff --git a/source/_posts/2023-07-20-year-of-the-voice-chapter-3.markdown b/source/_posts/2023-07-20-year-of-the-voice-chapter-3.markdown new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..a6839bf1cad --- /dev/null +++ b/source/_posts/2023-07-20-year-of-the-voice-chapter-3.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +--- +layout: post +title: "Year of the Voice - Chapter 3: Ready when you are" +description: "The full power of Assist on all of your Android devices." +date: 2023-07-20 00:00:00 +date_formatted: "July 20, 2023" +author: Mike Hansen +comments: true +categories: Assist +og_image: /images/blog/2023-07-20-year-of-the-voice-chapter-3/social.png +--- + +

+ +This year is Home Assistant’s [Year of the Voice]. It is our goal for 2023 to let users control Home Assistant in their own language. Today we’re presenting our third milestone for the year: Chapter 3. + +In [Chapter 1], we focused on intents – what the user wants to do. The Home Assistant community has now translated common smart home commands and responses into [50 languages], coming even closer to the 62 languages that Home Assistant supports. + +In [Chapter 2], we introduced speech-to-text and text-to-speech. This allows users to talk and listen to their smart homes through the browser, [ESPHome], and even [analog phones]. + +For Chapter 3, we bring the full power of [Assist] to the million active Android devices running the Home Assistant Companion app. Got an Android phone, tablet, or watch? Set Assist as your default digital assistant and talk to your Home Assistant with one push! + + + + + +_To watch the video presentation of this blog post, including live demos, check [the recording of our live stream.][live-stream]_ + +[Year of the Voice]: https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2022/12/20/year-of-voice/ +[Chapter 1]: https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/01/26/year-of-the-voice-chapter-1/ +[Chapter 2]: https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/04/27/year-of-the-voice-chapter-2/ +[50 languages]: https://home-assistant.github.io/intents/ +[live-stream]: https://youtube.com/live/sXzItFksYFA?feature=share +[Assist]: /voice_control/ +[ESPHome]: /voice_control/thirteen-usd-voice-remote/ +[analog phones]: /voice_control/worlds-most-private-voice-assistant/ + + + +## Native Assist on Android + +Starting in Chapter 3, Assist is now natively supported through the [Home Assistant Companion App]. With this update, the full power of Assist is available to over a million Android devices using Home Assistant. Access the Assist button in the app, and talk to your smart home from your phone: + +

+Screenshot of Assist in HA Companion app +Assist on Android is built-in to the Android app and uses the speech-to-text from Home Assistant +

+ + +Have a [Home Assistant Cloud subscription]? You can now control your smart home via voice from anywhere in the world without giving up your privacy. Multiple Home Assistant servers are supported, so you can just as easily talk to your parent's house: + +

+Screenshot of Assist picking a voice assistant +Select a voice assistant from any of your configured Home Assistant instances +

+ +### Default digital assistant + +Why open an app if you don't have to? Set Home Assistant as your default digital assistant app! Now, holding the home or power button will instantly bring up Assist: + +

+Screenshot of Assist activated on the home screen +Launch Assist from anywhere on Android without having to open the Home Assistant app +

+ +It's even possible to activate Assist directly from the lock screen: + + + +You can find the settings on Android: **Settings** -> **Apps** -> **Default apps** or tap on the tip in the Home Assistant Companion settings. + +[Home Assistant Companion App]: https://companion.home-assistant.io/ +[Home Assistant Cloud subscription]: https://www.nabucasa.com/ + +## Native Assist on Wear OS + +We didn't leave out watches! Wear OS devices can now natively use Assist as well: + + + +Text-to-speech responses are spoken directly from the watch, allowing you to listen instead of looking for confirmation. + +Like the phones, it is possible to set Home Assistant to be your watch's default digital assistant. Pressing the crown or holding the button on your watch now brings up Assist! + +

+Screenshot of native Assist on Wear OS +Native Assist on Wear OS +

+ +## Sentence triggers + +While [custom sentences] were already part of Assist, they required manually editing YAML. With the new [sentence trigger], you can now add custom sentences directly in the UI: + +

+Screenshot of sentence trigger creation +Configure your own sentences to trigger any action in the automation editor +

+ +These sentences take priority over the built-in commands, and work anywhere that Assist does. Some basic [template syntax] is available, such as marking parts of the sentence as optional. + +[custom sentences]: /voice_control/custom_sentences/ +[sentence trigger]: /voice_control/custom_sentences/#adding-a-custom-sentence-to-trigger-an-automation +[template syntax]: https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/voice/intent-recognition/template-sentence-syntax + +## Assist debug tool + +The Home Assistant community is hard at work translating [common smart home commands]. To help contributors, we've added an "Assist" developer tool that lets you test out sentences without actually executing the commands: + +

+Screenshot of Assist developer tool +Test sentence understanding with the Assist developer tool +

+ +For each test command or query, you can find out: + +- Which [intent] would be triggered with its slot values +- Which entities would be targeted +- Whether or not each targeted entity matched (queries only) + +[common smart home commands]: https://github.com/home-assistant/intents/ +[intent]: https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/intent_builtin + +## Piper community voices + +[Piper] is a text-to-speech system created by Nabu Casa, designed to run locally on the Raspberry Pi 4. Since its introduction in Chapter 2, Piper has [grown rapidly] with adoption in the open source community as well as [academia]. + +

+Piper logo +

+ +The [Piper add-on] for Home Assistant OS now supports 23 languages and over 70 different voices. This includes voices from 7 brand new [voice datasets] contributed by the Home Assistant community. These datasets have been collected and donated to the public domain by Nabu Casa for the benefit of text-to-speech research now and in the future. + +[Piper]: https://github.com/rhasspy/piper/ +[grown rapidly]: https://building.open-home.io/piper-is-our-new-voice-for-the-open-home/ +[Piper add-on]: https://github.com/home-assistant/addons/blob/master/piper/README.md +[academia]: https://www.techrxiv.org/articles/preprint/Image_Captioning_for_the_Visually_Impaired_and_Blind_A_Recipe_for_Low-Resource_Languages/22133894 +[voice datasets]: https://github.com/NabuCasa/voice-datasets/ + +## New ESPHome voice modes + +ATOM Echo Smart Speaker from M5Stack + +With hardware like the $13 [ATOM Echo], it was possible in Chapter 2 to [create a push-to-talk voice Assistant using ESPHome](/voice_control/thirteen-usd-voice-remote/). + +Using the latest ESPHome, you can push a button to start speaking and let Home Assistant detect the end of the voice command. Continuous mode is also available, allowing multiple conversation turns with Assist similar to an analog phone. + +```yaml +voice_assistant: + microphone: ... + speaker: ... + +binary_sensor: + - platform: gpio + pin: ... + on_click: + - if: + condition: voice_assistant.is_running + then: + - voice_assistant.stop: + else: + - voice_assistant.start_continuous: +``` + +[ESPHome Voice Assistant documentation](https://esphome.io/components/voice_assistant.html#click-to-converse) + +### Silence detection + +ESPHome's new voice modes use Home Assistant to detect the end of each voice command. In your device's configuration, you can now adjust how much silence is needed with "Finished speaking detection": + +

+Configure silence detection for your ESPHome voice assistant +ESPHome Voice Assistant have two config entities to automate it's behavior in Home Assistant +

+ +[ATOM Echo]: https://shop.m5stack.com/products/atom-echo-smart-speaker-dev-kit?ref=NabuCasa + +## Until next time + +That does it for Chapter 3! A big thanks to [Joris Pelgröm] for his work on the Android app, and to the many Assist contributors. +And as always, thank you to [Nabu Casa](https://www.nabucasa.com) and all of the Home Assistant Cloud subscribers for making this possible. + +If you want to help fund our work on voice and further development of Home Assistant, ESPHome, Z-Wave JS and other related projects? Subscribe to [Home Assistant Cloud](https://www.nabucasa.com). + +### Where is wake word? + +After three chapters in the Year of Voice, the message from Home Assistant users and creators is loud and clear: we want a wake word for Assist! + +In Chapter 4, our focus will be on delivering the foundation for wake word detection. As a part of the [Open Home], this foundation will keep in line with our values: privacy, choice, and durability. Stay tuned! + +[Joris Pelgröm]: https://github.com/jpelgrom +[Open Home]: https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2021/12/23/the-open-home/?ref=building.open-home.io + +_Some links on this page are affiliate links and purchases using these links support the Home Assistant project._ diff --git a/source/images/blog/2023-07-20-year-of-the-voice-chapter-3/atom_echo.png b/source/images/blog/2023-07-20-year-of-the-voice-chapter-3/atom_echo.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..fcd0c4d9d89 Binary files /dev/null and b/source/images/blog/2023-07-20-year-of-the-voice-chapter-3/atom_echo.png differ diff --git a/source/images/blog/2023-07-20-year-of-the-voice-chapter-3/esphome_config.png b/source/images/blog/2023-07-20-year-of-the-voice-chapter-3/esphome_config.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..6265c733517 Binary files /dev/null and b/source/images/blog/2023-07-20-year-of-the-voice-chapter-3/esphome_config.png differ diff --git a/source/images/blog/2023-07-20-year-of-the-voice-chapter-3/multi-server.png b/source/images/blog/2023-07-20-year-of-the-voice-chapter-3/multi-server.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..de2da6ba8a9 Binary files /dev/null and b/source/images/blog/2023-07-20-year-of-the-voice-chapter-3/multi-server.png differ diff --git a/source/images/blog/2023-07-20-year-of-the-voice-chapter-3/phone-ha.jpg b/source/images/blog/2023-07-20-year-of-the-voice-chapter-3/phone-ha.jpg new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..6b7d7a9bd2f Binary files /dev/null and b/source/images/blog/2023-07-20-year-of-the-voice-chapter-3/phone-ha.jpg differ diff --git a/source/images/blog/2023-07-20-year-of-the-voice-chapter-3/phone.jpg b/source/images/blog/2023-07-20-year-of-the-voice-chapter-3/phone.jpg new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..d293dc1379b Binary files /dev/null and b/source/images/blog/2023-07-20-year-of-the-voice-chapter-3/phone.jpg differ diff --git a/source/images/blog/2023-07-20-year-of-the-voice-chapter-3/sentence-debug.png b/source/images/blog/2023-07-20-year-of-the-voice-chapter-3/sentence-debug.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..b86eebdc497 Binary files /dev/null and b/source/images/blog/2023-07-20-year-of-the-voice-chapter-3/sentence-debug.png differ diff --git a/source/images/blog/2023-07-20-year-of-the-voice-chapter-3/sentence-trigger.png b/source/images/blog/2023-07-20-year-of-the-voice-chapter-3/sentence-trigger.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..4c31d43c02f Binary files /dev/null and b/source/images/blog/2023-07-20-year-of-the-voice-chapter-3/sentence-trigger.png differ diff --git a/source/images/blog/2023-07-20-year-of-the-voice-chapter-3/social.png b/source/images/blog/2023-07-20-year-of-the-voice-chapter-3/social.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..21e44cd4a46 Binary files /dev/null and b/source/images/blog/2023-07-20-year-of-the-voice-chapter-3/social.png differ diff --git a/source/images/blog/2023-07-20-year-of-the-voice-chapter-3/watch.png b/source/images/blog/2023-07-20-year-of-the-voice-chapter-3/watch.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..be66e34802f Binary files /dev/null and b/source/images/blog/2023-07-20-year-of-the-voice-chapter-3/watch.png differ diff --git a/source/index.html b/source/index.html index 765981cf611..cab9c9706f3 100644 --- a/source/index.html +++ b/source/index.html @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ feedback: false