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My initial experience with setting up a voice assistant - attempting to pause pi-hole via voice "stop ad blocker" (infosec.pub)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Dave@lemmy.nz to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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I was trying to get it to pause Pi-hole on request. I'm using Home Assistant Cloud (Nabu Casa) for speech to text, and have also got OpenAI plugged into it for if it doesn't recognise a command. The screen shot is from the debug logs that I eventually found after struggling to work out why it wasn't running my automation.

I'm using the new Home Assistant Voice Preview. Don't get me wrong, overall very happy with it for the price point, but for some reason the cloud speech recognition (I believe powered by Google) is very good at understanding me until I start trying to talk about ad blocking.

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[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 22 points 5 months ago (3 children)

The problem is it seems to be different every time. Here's my list so far:

screen shot with list of different phrases - stop ad blocker, stop hit box, stop at locker, stop head blocking, and more, about 10 of them

[–] whodatdair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 5 months ago

Stop at locker 🤣

[–] Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I'm really sorry you're experiencing this but it's at least a little funny how botched speech processing can still be.

I don't know enough to really help you, but good luck <3

[–] spitfire@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oof Australian (not Austrian?;)) accent seems to be heavy ;)

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Maybe I misunderstood but it sounded like you just called me Australian 😲

[–] spitfire@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, New Zealander ;) as someone who lives directly on the opposite side of the globe (Poland) I don’t see that much difference in accent;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT637TV3y5s

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Not much difference!? Aussies are all Feesh and Cheeps and we're more like Fush and Chups. They are all "Mate, can you get the goon bag out of the esky" and we're more like "Bro, can ya grab us a brew from the chilly bin?"

And if you ask for a tinnie you'll get something quite different in NZ vs Australia.

One time I was on a plane and the pilot was Australian. It took quite a while to work out the language he was speaking was English.

Hard to get them mixed up 😋

[–] spitfire@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If you say so;) Please don’t get too offended, it doesn’t sound that different from each other :) Here’s one example of why that might be: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NRdg1MOYxHo

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 5 months ago

Haha don't worry, it's feigned offence 🙂