Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition

… announcing a message on an Atom Echo, the pre announcement sound is not played back. Neither the "internal" sound nor when specifying a custom media id. Esphome is version 2025.3.3 Playing back the specified custom ID as a ``play_media`` action does work as intended. ### What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue? core-2025.4.0 ### What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core? _No response_ ### What type of installation are you running? Home Assistant OS ### Integration causing the issue Esphome ### Link to integration documentation on our website _No response_ ### …

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Did you look into the HA Voice pipeline and the Wyoming protocol and the Home Assist Voice Preview Edition? That's how most of us have tried. It's decent but needs some refining. I've had better luck for voice recognition with the Seeed studio Respeaker Lite (2 mics). But generally Weather - easy - expose a weather entity like pirate weather to voice and it can give you that. Timers - built in and work okay. Slightly challenging to make a display for it depending on your hardware. Timers right now are local to the device that heard of the timer, so if a different voice hears you it won't be …

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Judging by the reviews its not ready to replace Siri yet.

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I've been eyeballing it. I want to tinker a bit more with voice. The HA voice preview isn't really doing great for me so I was hoping to find something that would do a better job hearing me

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