HABot Walkthrough (9/n): Configuring Voice Input

[ysc (Yannick Schaus)]

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[HenMus]

Hi,
Should voice input work by default on OH3?
When I press the mic symbol I get the message “not-allowed”
How to get this working?

[Simon2018 (Serge Brad)]

For those who cannot wait, I found something here:

Rhasspy to HABot

Hi, I’ve setup a Rhasspy installation and was wondering if it is possible to simply send the “output text” (the STT output) of rhasspy as an input to HABot (like what I would type in the chat field). I found the solution with the following: In Rhasspy Settings, I do not recommend to set the MQTT broker as your main openHAB one, as the audio stream goes through it (since Rhasspy 2.5). I am using a single setup, so have the Rhasspy MQTT “internal” broker. This broker runs in Rhasspy Docker (unl…

[SHUred]

Hi there,
instead of opening a new topic im trying to place my question here.

I was trying to find out if the setup im thinking about is possible:

1. Central openHAB host providing calculation performance
2. SmartSpeaker-Endpoints with low calculation performance permanently streaming/receiving audio from openHAB

I am ablsolutely not an expert and maybe i am thinking about this the wrong way but having multiple low-cost, low-energy-consumption and compact Endpoints feels good to me.

Any could you try to help me by sharing your thoughts about

• Does this setup even make sense?
• What OS/Device/Service could be used to create endpoints: RPi, RPi Pico/Zero, ESPXXX

Thanks in advance and feel free to correct my statements

What i found so far:

(Not sure if i understood the content of each)

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Rhasspy
?Performing STT on Endpoint?

EDIT:
Finding this in the Documentation gives an overview how to use multiple rhasspy in Base-Satellite-constellation → Promising to me

Rhasspy to HABot

Hi, I’ve setup a Rhasspy installation and was wondering if it is possible to simply send the “output text” (the STT output) of rhasspy as an input to HABot (like what I would type in the chat field). I found the solution with the following: In Rhasspy Settings, I do not recommend to set the MQTT broker as your main openHAB one, as the audio stream goes through it (since Rhasspy 2.5). I am using a single setup, so have the Rhasspy MQTT “internal” broker. This broker runs in Rhasspy Docker (unl…

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HAB Speaker
?Needs openHAB running and performing STT on Endpoint?

HABSpeaker

[logo] HABSpeaker is a project designed to facilitate the use of the openHAB dialog processing capabilities. This add-on consist on a web UI that some web features (WebWorkers, AudioWorklets and WebSockets), to enable dialog processing agains OpenHAB. It registers an AudioSink, an AudioSource and a DialogProcessor instance that are bound to the WebSocket connection establish between the server and the web UI. Be aware that for capturing the microphone audio in a browser it requires an initia…

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[Miguel_M.A.D (Miguel (GiviMAD))]

Hi, sorry for the late reply.

You can achieve something similar by using the pulseaudiobinding to register sinks and sources for your devices and then starting a dialog for each of those using the cli voice command startdialog.

I have opened a PR for OH 4 to add new commands to make this a little easier to manage [voice] Add voice commands for register/unregister dialogs and list them by GiviMAD · Pull Request #3459 · openhab/openhab-core · GitHub.

Once that one gets merged I’m going to create a small guide on how to setup a speaker using a raspberry and pulseaudio (I think there is no post about it). I have currently one speaker setup like that using raspberry zero w.