diff --git a/source/_posts/2023-05-03-release-20235.markdown b/source/_posts/2023-05-03-release-20235.markdown index 303f0f3515b..d815b27a7bc 100644 --- a/source/_posts/2023-05-03-release-20235.markdown +++ b/source/_posts/2023-05-03-release-20235.markdown @@ -67,62 +67,70 @@ Don't forget to [join our release party live stream on YouTube](https://www.yout -## Year of the voice - Chapter 2 +## Let's talk! -This release is almost fully dedicated to the Year of the voice: Chapter 2! +Our goal for 2023 is to let you control Home Assistant in your own language: +It is [Home Assistant’s Year of the Voice][yotv]! After [chapter 1][chapter1] in +January last week, [we announced chapter 2][chapter2] in this exciting journey! -The full reveal, explaintion, and live demos will be shown during the -[our live stream on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lorem) -27 April 2023, at 12:00 PDT / 21:00 CEST! +This release ships everything (plus more) that was announced! This means, as +of this release, you can actually start talking to Home Assistant! 🎙️ - + -The release blog post will be updated later this beta week to better -connect to all of this. +Here is a quick summary of [all that has been announced][chapter2], linked to +the place you can read more about each of them: -**What to explore during beta already?** +- [Compose your own voice assistant using the new assist pipelines](/blog/2023/04/27/year-of-the-voice-chapter-2/#composing-voice-assistants) +- [Voice Assistant powered by Home Assistant Cloud](/blog/2023/04/27/year-of-the-voice-chapter-2/#voice-assistant-powered-by-home-assistant-cloud) +- [Fully local text-to-speech using Piper](/blog/2023/04/27/year-of-the-voice-chapter-2/#piper-our-new-model-for-high-quality-local-text-to-speech) +- [Fully local speech-to-text using OpenAI Wishper](/blog/2023/04/27/year-of-the-voice-chapter-2/#local-speech-to-text-with-openai-whisper) +- [The Wyoming protocol and integration](/blog/2023/04/27/year-of-the-voice-chapter-2/#wyoming-the-voice-assistant-glue) +- [Create your own ESPHome-powered voice assistant](/blog/2023/04/27/year-of-the-voice-chapter-2/#esphome-powered-voice-assistants) +- [The Voice-over-IP integration, call Home Assistant ☎️](/blog/2023/04/27/year-of-the-voice-chapter-2/#worlds-most-private-voice-assistant) -So, what to explore? There is a new menu to be found in the system settings: -**Voice assistants**, which you should check out, [Assist](/docs/assist) is -getting ears and a voice :) +To help you get started, we made sure the documentation is perfect, including +some cool project tutorials to jump-start your own private voice assistant +journey: -## Control what is exposed to your voice assistants +- [The world's most private voice assistant](/projects/worlds-most-private-voice-assistant/) +- [Giving your voice assistant a Super Mario personality using OpenAI](/projects/worlds-most-private-voice-assistant/#give-your-voice-assistant-personality-using-the-openai-integration) +- [Installing a local Assist pipeline](/docs/assist/voice_remote_local_assistant/) +- [The $13 tiny ESPHome-based voice assistant](/projects/thirteen-usd-voice-remote/) -{% details "TODO" %} +If you missed [last week's live stream](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk-pnm7FY7c), +be sure to check it out. It is full of live demos and detailed explanations +of everything packed into this release. The recording of the live stream: -- Improve/extend story -- Proof read/spelling/grammar -- Replace screenshots/clips + -{% enddetails %} +[yotv]: /blog/2022/12/20/year-of-voice/ +[chapter2]: /blog/2023/04/27/year-of-the-voice-chapter-2/ +[chapter1]: /blog/2023/01/26/year-of-the-voice-chapter-1/ -There a whole new panel, where you can control which entities are exposed -to your voice assistant. You can find it in -**Settings** > **Voice assistants** > **Expose**-tab. +## Manage what is exposed to your voice assistants -

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+A brand new and exciting menu item can be found in your {% my config title="**Settings**" %} +menu: {% my voice_assistants title="**Voice assistants**" %}! -This currently supports our [Assist](/docs/assist), Amazon Alexa and -Google Assistant. For the latter two, it is curently limited to -the ones set up via Home Assistant Cloud. +Screenshot showing the brand new menu item in the settings menu: Voice assistants. -## Local TTS/SST options +This new settings item gives you access to many fantastic new voice features; +it also provides a new **Expose** tab where you can manage which entities are +exposed to your Assist, Alexa, and Google Assistant. -A new integration [Wyoming](/integrations/wyoming) provides a way -for Home Assistant to integrate with voice Text-to-speech and -Speech-to-text services that use the Wyoming protocol. +Screenshot showing the new expose entities tab in the voice assistants menu. -This release introduces two new add-ons that support this and thus provide -a fully local option (that can be used on, for example, a Raspberry Pi 4). +It gives an overview of what entities you have exposed to your voice assistants +and easily remove or add new ones. Clicking on an entity in this screen will +bring up the voice assistant setting for that entity, allowing you to turn +on/off the entity's exposure to a specific voice assistant and +manage the entity's aliases. -- Speech-to-text using [OpenAI Whisper](https://my.home-assistant.io/redirect/supervisor_addon/?addon=whisper). -- Text-to-speech using [Piper](https://my.home-assistant.io/redirect/supervisor_addon/?addon=core_piper). +Screenshot showing the new expose entities tab in the voice assistants menu. -Piper is really amazing, it is small, sounds reasonably good and -above all is fully local. [Checkout out some output examples here](https://rhasspy.github.io/piper-samples/). +This currently supports our [Assist](/docs/assist), and Amazon Alexa and +Google Assistant via Home Assistant Cloud. ## Improved entity setting diff --git a/source/images/blog/2023-05/voice-assistants-expose-entities-settings.png b/source/images/blog/2023-05/voice-assistants-expose-entities-settings.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..db4ffa378f8 Binary files /dev/null and b/source/images/blog/2023-05/voice-assistants-expose-entities-settings.png differ diff --git a/source/images/blog/2023-05/voice-assistants-expose-entities.png b/source/images/blog/2023-05/voice-assistants-expose-entities.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..c3afff6dedd Binary files /dev/null and b/source/images/blog/2023-05/voice-assistants-expose-entities.png differ diff --git a/source/images/blog/2023-05/voice-assistants.png b/source/images/blog/2023-05/voice-assistants.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..f7f0c83f2f4 Binary files /dev/null and b/source/images/blog/2023-05/voice-assistants.png differ