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Re:Home Assistant 2023.11 by pierregillesl on Thursday November 02, 2023 @11:44AM (#38115141)
Nice! What languages do you support? (for STT & TTS)
Re:Home Assistant 2023.11 by kkielhofner on Thursday November 02, 2023 @03:44PM (#38118954)
Thanks!

STT is "just" a very heavily optimized (beyond even faster-whisper) Whisper implementation, so all of those languages[0].

For TTS we now use Coqui, which has a wide range of models with various voices, languages, etc. It even supports Meta MMS which has support for 1,100 languages[1].

[0] - https://github.com/openai/whisper#available-models-and-langu...

[1] - https://about.fb.com/news/2023/05/ai-massively-multilingual-...

Re:Home Assistant 2023.11 by pierregillesl on Friday November 03, 2023 @04:33AM (#38125976)
Ok! And what kind of hardware do your users run on? Do you get great quality of detection like Google Home/Alexa speakers?