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What has your experience been with Home Assistant voice? I also have one but still use my Alexa’s. I love HA and it runs my house but my initial tests were not great. I tried both OpenAI and HA cloud assistants but I could have spent more time tweaking things and I bet I could have done a lot by writing my own prompt.


It's OK in terms of voice recognition, as in, it almost always work. But integrating with an external LLM for more flexibility in voice commands has been a meh experience and doesn't work perfectly (to be fair, I'm using an external OpenAI compatible API, so it might be something to do with that).


Yeah, I've tried local LLMs, Open AI, and Anthropic. They all sort-of-work and can feel magical but I feel I need to a lot more tweaking/configuring/prompting to improve the experience.




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