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 index b2e523b69b3..80481024e43 100644 --- 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 @@ -47,16 +47,18 @@ Assist on Android is built-in to the Android app and uses the speech-to-text fro

-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: +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

+[Multiple Home Assistant servers are supported]: /voice_control/android/#using-assist-with-multiple-home-assistant-servers + ### 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: +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 @@ -71,22 +73,26 @@ You can find the settings on Android: **Settings** > **Apps** > **Default apps** [Home Assistant Companion App]: https://companion.home-assistant.io/ [Home Assistant Cloud subscription]: https://www.nabucasa.com/ +[default digital assistant app]: /voice_control/android/#setting-up-home-assistant-assist-as-default-assistant-app-on-an-android-phone ## Native Assist on Wear OS -We didn't leave out watches! Wear OS devices can now natively use Assist as well: +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! +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

+[use Assist]: /voice_control/android/#assist-on-wear-os +[watch's default digital assistant]: /voice_control/android/#setting-up-home-assistant-assist-as-default-assistant-app-on-a-wear-os-watch + ## 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: @@ -104,7 +110,7 @@ These sentences take priority over the built-in commands, and work anywhere that ## 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: +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 @@ -119,6 +125,7 @@ For each test command or query, you can find out: [common smart home commands]: https://github.com/home-assistant/intents/ [intent]: https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/intent_builtin +["Assist" developer tool]: /voice_control/troubleshooting/#test-a-sentence-per-assistant-without-voice-while-executing-the-commands ## Piper community voices @@ -130,17 +137,21 @@ For each test command or query, you can find out: The upcoming release of the [Piper add-on] for Home Assistant 2023.8 will support 23 languages and over 70 different voices. This will include 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. +You can use [Piper in automations] to make text-to-speech announcements, or use it as your voice to [setup a fully local assistant]. + [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/ +[Piper in automations]: /voice_control/using_tts_in_automation/ +[setup a fully local assistant]: /voice_control/voice_remote_local_assistant/ ## 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/). +With hardware like the $13 [ATOM Echo], it was possible in Chapter 2 to [create a push-to-talk voice Assistant using ESPHome]. 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. @@ -160,7 +171,6 @@ binary_sensor: else: - voice_assistant.start_continuous: ``` - [ESPHome Voice Assistant documentation](https://esphome.io/components/voice_assistant.html#click-to-converse) ### Silence detection @@ -173,6 +183,7 @@ ESPHome Voice Assistant have two config entities to automate it's behavior in Ho

[ATOM Echo]: https://shop.m5stack.com/products/atom-echo-smart-speaker-dev-kit?ref=NabuCasa +[create a push-to-talk voice Assistant using ESPHome]: /voice_control/thirteen-usd-voice-remote/ ## Until next time