Amazon is upgrading its decade-old Alexa voice assistant with generative AI and plans to charge a monthly subscription fee to offset the cost of the technology.
And this is exact the reason I’m building a Home Assistant instance with local voice processing. Right now it takes a few seconds to process a request and take action on my crappy 1.8ghz laptop with only 4gb of RAM, but it basically does everything I use Alexa for. This announcement is just encouraging me to build a better server with an esp32 satellite.
I’m in the process of this now too. The only I need that I can’t figure out within home-assistant assist, is unit conversions. Converting measurements when cooking is one of the main thing we use the Alexa for these days.
And this is exact the reason I’m building a Home Assistant instance with local voice processing. Right now it takes a few seconds to process a request and take action on my crappy 1.8ghz laptop with only 4gb of RAM, but it basically does everything I use Alexa for. This announcement is just encouraging me to build a better server with an esp32 satellite.
I’m in the process of this now too. The only I need that I can’t figure out within home-assistant assist, is unit conversions. Converting measurements when cooking is one of the main thing we use the Alexa for these days.