Home Assistant 2025.8 released!

Group controls now support per-device actions
Area dashboard adds camera/icon display
AI Tasks & “Suggest with AI” (opt-in only)
Streaming TTS now faster in HA Cloud
OpenRouter: access 400+ LLMs
AI now supports camera & file inputs

All AI features are optional & privacy-first

@homeassistant@fosstodon.org
@homeassistant@lemmy.world

https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/08/06/release-20258/

Sometime back, I got obsessed with the idea of running my own voice assistant — fully local, no Google, no Amazon, no "cloud intelligence." Just me, my wife and our server(s)...

So I built Marvin.

Excited to share Thorsten-Voice's YouTube channel!

Thorsten presents innovative TTS solutions and a variety of voice technologies, making it an excellent starting point for anyone interested in open-source text-to-speech. Whether you're a developer, accessibility advocate, or tech enthusiast, his channel offers valuable insights and resources. Don't miss out on this fantastic content!

follow hem here: @thorstenvoice
or on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ThorstenMueller YouTube channel!

Anthropic si prepara a lanciare una nuova funzione "voice mode" per il suo chatbot Claude, in grado di competere con l'opzione simile di OpenAI Tre voci in inglese, Airy, Mellow e Buttery, saranno disponibili. #Anthropic #AI #VoiceAssistant

Amazon’s Alexa+: A New Era of AI-Powered Personal Assistants https://www.byteseu.com/?p=918631 #AI #AIAssistant #alexa #AmazonAlexa #ArtificialIntelligence #DigitalAssistant #GenerativeAI #PersonalAIAssistant #VoiceAssistant

Looks like it might be about time to throw those Echos out!

Amazon is getting rid of the option for Echo devices to process Alexa voice requests locally

https://www.engadget.com/home/smart-home/amazon-is-getting-rid-of-the-option-for-echo-devices-to-process-alexa-requests-locally-182627101.html?src=rss

From March 28th, Amazon will send everything you say - all audio utterances - to the cloud, removing support for "processing on device". Billed as necessary to support Voice ID + Alexa+ features, there are significant implications for #privacy #VoiceAssistant

Nuanced and informed reporting by #ScharonHarden for @arstechnica

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/everything-you-say-to-your-echo-will-be-sent-to-amazon-starting-on-march-28/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

I hope #m5stack never find out the abuse I’m putting their little board through! #HomeAssistant #Esphome #voiceassistant #atomecho

Doing a thing! #HomeAssistant #EspHome #VoiceAssistant

Nice to see how @homeassistant is progressing with freeing up voice assistance.

I ditched my #Alexa some years ago, for privacyreasons. Now my Christmas presence will be the Voice Assists PE:

https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/12/19/voice-preview-edition-the-era-of-open-voice/

Nabu Casa's new Home Assistant Voice device offers a high level of privacy-focused smart home control. #HomeAssistant #VoiceAssistant #SmartHome #Privacy #OpenSource #NabuCasa #HomeAutomation #IoT #DIY

https://winbuzzer.com/2024/12/20/home-assistant-launches-a-privacy-focused-voice-assistant-device-xcxwbn/

Hacking my #M5Stack Atom Echo onto an old amplifier board with a bigger speaker so my old ears can actually hear the responses.
I suppose I’m going to have to design an enclosure now as well

Hi @keno3003, Danke für euer Video zu #GeminiLive auf http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_8PLJAwRj0 (und vor allem für den Schluss )

Was mir als Info abging ist, ob man sowas auch rein lokal benutzen kann. Also mit dem #LLM direkt am Handy.

Diverse Dinge darf und will ich nicht in die #Cloud schicken und daher wäre ich an sowas prinzipiell schon interessiert aber nur, wenn meine Daten nicht mein Gerät verlassen können und ich die Netzwerk-Permission abschalten kann.

Hey, do I have any friends using #sonos in conjucntion with home assistant for home automation and voice control?

I've been through google home, Amazon Echo, and Apple Homekit, all of them have their own pitfalls. I’m curious if Sonos is any better, and what you like or dont like about them?

Як деяким людям повертається язик називати корпорацію Google компанією добра, якщо вони досі не додали українську мову до свого голосового асистента. У більшості є обліковий запис Google, тому давайте закидаймо їх скаргами (оцінками).

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox

@rada @ua #google #asistant #voiceassistant #асистент #українізація #українська

Taco Bell to Bring Voice AI Ordering to Hundreds of US Drive-Throughs - Drive-throughs are a popular feature at fast-food places, where you can get some f... - https://hackaday.com/2024/08/02/taco-bell-to-bring-voice-ai-ordering-to-hundreds-of-us-drive-throughs/ #artificialintelligence #voicerecognition #voiceassistant #news

McDonald’s Terminates Its Drive-Through Ordering Via AI Assistant - McDonald’s recently announced that it will be scrapping the voice-assistant which ... - https://hackaday.com/2024/06/18/mcdonalds-terminates-its-drive-through-ordering-via-ai-assistant/ #artificialintelligence #voiceassistant #mcdonalds #news

ChatGPT-4o allows real-time audio-video conversations with an “emotional” AI chatbot - Enlarge (credit: Getty Images)

On Monday, OpenAI debuted GPT-4... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2023751 #largelanguagemodels #machinelearning #voiceassistant #gregbrockman #aiassistant #gpt-4-turbo #miramurati #samaltman #chatgpt #chatgtp #biz⁢ #gpt-4o #movies #openai #films #gpt-4 #her #ai

#Blind #Samsung #Android users: A question for you to help guide my testing process (results to be shared with my team): How much, if at all, do you use #VoiceAssistant? Please boost for greater reach. Thanks! #Accessibility