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JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoYeah, just having a microphone in the house with some predefined voice controls which you can go and change gives you all of the benefits of a Google home with none of the Google bullshit.
Especially now with LLMs getting so big, just go set up voice-to-text ollama session with predefined prompts and responses
shalafi@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
That handles automation, but can’t freestyle questions.
“Hey Google, convert (metric) to (Imperial).”
“Hey Google, weather today?”
“Hey Google, what’s the capital of Kakistan?”
I have a ceiling-mounted mini in almost every room and just toss questions around while I work or play. Or, just ask it to play music. (Which went to shit when I cancelled Spotify.)
gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
I learned how to get Home assistant working JUST to restore this feature. Fuck you Google for not supporting other services despite supporting controlling them once it starts going ugh
JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It can if you use an LLM as the interface with guidelines instead of rules