If you’re using the Home Assistant voice assistant mechanism (not Alexa/Google/etc.) how’s it working for you?
Given there’s a number of knobs that you can use, what do you use and what works well?
- Wake word model. There’s the default models and custom
- Conservation agent and model
- Speech to text models (e.g. speech-to-phrase or whisper)
- Text to speech models


It’s probably a mono directional mic, or just narrow focus. Omni directional mics I only know about in the musical sense, and they aren’t cheap. But I’m sure there are inexpensive versions