History of Voice in Home Assistant

Control HA with your voice without any cloud integration

1.ReSpeaker 4-Mic Array for Raspberry Pi
https://wiki.seeedstudio.com/ReSpeaker_4_Mic_Array_for_Raspberry_Pi/

this solution I could only send voice commands in the room where the PI is located, i.e. the living room. So rather unsuitable if an audio book is for the kids is required.

source:https://community.home-assistant.io/t/control-ha-with-your-voice-without-any-cloud-integration/206635

2.Rhasspy offline voice assistant toolkit

Rhasspy can listen to audio input from a local microphone or from a remote audio stream.
https://github.com/rhasspy/rhasspy

source:https://community.home-assistant.io/t/rhasspy-offline-voice-assistant-toolkit/60862

would be nice if this app could record the voice as Rhasspy satellite and send it to the Rhasspy server (e.g. via MQTT)

3.My favorable device should have the following

HA Satellite mini:

wifi
voice assistant
snapcast client
audio out for music (from snapcast)

4.
2023

ESPHome devices with a microphone are able to stream the audio to Home Assistant and be processed there by assist.
https://www.esphome.io/components/voice_assistant.html

Note

Voice Assistant requires Home Assistant 2023.5 or later.

Home Assistant Voice assistant version history

Our history with voice assistants

History of Voice in Home Assistant(2023)



December 20, 2022,  2023: Home Assistant's year of Voice
https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2022/12/20/year-of-voice/

January 26, 2023,Year of the Voice - Chapter 1: Assist

https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/01/26/year-of-the-voice-chapter-1/

In Chapter 1, we focused on intents – what the user wants to do.



Home Assistant Voice Assist was introduced in Home Assistant 2023.2.

The Home Assistant 2023.2 release includes two alternative Assist engines that you can enable: Google Assistant and OpenAI GPT-3.

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April 27, 2023,Year of the Voice - Chapter 2: Let's talk
https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/04/27/year-of-the-voice-chapter-2/


For Chapter 2, we’ve expanded beyond text to now include audio; specifically, turning audio (speech) into text, and text back into speech. With this functionality, Home Assistant’s Assist feature is now able to provide a full voice interface for users to interact with.

Siri already supports the HA Voice command


in Android just Google Assistant is possible.