Home Assistant Voice Pe – 26.5.0
Home Assistant Voice PE 26.5.0 is live! 🚀
If you’ve been building your own local voice assistant using ESPHome, this update is a massive win for stability and custom pipelines. This project is all about bringing private, offline voice control to your smart home, and this patch makes those interactions much more seamless.
What’s new in this release:
- Enhanced Stability & Sync: Say goodbye to timing hiccups! This update focuses on improved Sendspin stability and significantly better sync accuracy to keep your audio streams aligned.
- Home Assistant Integration Boost: A huge win for automation nerds! Home Assistant can now request unprocessed audio specifically for STT (Speech-to-Text) engines that handle their own processing internally. This makes custom voice pipelines much smoother and more efficient.
Big shout out to @teancommade for making their first contribution to the project! 🛠️