The era of open voice assistants

While we are getting shoveled AI keyword everywhere, I'm actually disappointed I don't see it here.

The first thought I had when encountering LLM was that it can finally make these devices understand you and make them finally useful... and I don't need to know some presceipted keywords.

You can actually integrate LLMs with Assist pipelines, it’s just orthogonal to this hardware announcement. Check out https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/06/05/release-20246/...

It's also really cool. You can make it so that the home assistant itself first tries to understand what you do, like turning on the living room lights or setting the bathroom temperature to 21.5 degrees celsius. If the assistant pipeline does not understand what you are asking for, it can send your question to the LLM of your choice. You can also make the LLM to control the lights, heat etc, but at least for now ChatGPT is pretty bad with that. So let home assistant do the home automation, and then let ChatGPT to answer your questions about the most popular ruler in the 19th century France.