Playing around with the Home Assistant Voice (Preview Edition), it's fascinating how well it works out of the box.
But what's even more fascinating: This is "just" an ESPHome device. With a 70k YAML config, but still! You can see it here:
https://github.com/esphome/home-assistant-voice-pe/blob/dev/home-assistant-voice.yaml
It has several features that I didn't even know were in ESPHome:
Animations for LED strips
https://esphome.io/components/light/#strip-animations
Wake word recognition
https://esphome.io/components/micro_wake_word/
Programmatic OTA
https://esphome.io/components/ota/http_request/
#HomeAssistant #ESPHome
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