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Do you get that kind of delay when you talk to the assistant on your phone or through a browser? It might be whisper taking a while to process it?
What is your home assistant running on?
Also, what's the range/mic/audio quality like on those atom echos? I'm thinking of looking into something like that now that a decent voice assistant is a possibility.
Good questions. I haven't talked to the assistant through the browser or phone yet -that's a good way to help narrow down what process might be causing delay.
I'm running HAOS in proxmox on a mini PC with a celeron. A couple people have said they're using beefy hardware, so I might need a new box.
I don't yet know the range of these Echoes, but they seem to do a great job listening. They also have a speaker but it sounds super wuiet, not really useful. If I want a verbal response I'll have to push it through other speakers via an automation.
Not the OP, but commenting on the Atoms. They are good for testing, but not sure I'd want to use them for a full setup.
For one, speakers are pretty rough in them 😂 That's kinda to be expected though, it's intended as a cheap dev device.
However, the bigger thing for me is to wait and see what hardware HA will support when they implement on-device wake-word processing. I'd definitely prefer no continuous audio streaming over the network, until after I have said the wake word.