For those of us still impatiently waiting, what is your experience so far with “Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition”?
—- I ordered just 2 hours in but the vendor I used sold out in 21 minutes. I just found out I also missed the restock, so hopefully some time next month.
It’s there and configured. Ready to go. You can do it
You’re not wrong but the local whisper(?) engine is really slow running on my NAS. I have an N100 box that runs Plex but I haven’t found much to suggest it would be any quicker running from there due to a lack of OpenVino support. Standard Whisper can be compiled to use it but it’s potentially no quicker than faster-whisper without it.
And that’s where I’m up to really. Every time I think about getting some different versions installed and doing benchmarks my brain goes back to Christmas slob mode and fogs over.
Welll, you’re way ahead of me. In addition to not getting one yet, I’ve got the flu for over two weeks now. Actually my ex caught it before Christmas and it slow-walked through the family ever since