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How to intercept Assistant voice responses? (lemmy.d.thewooskeys.com)
submitted 9 months ago by mike_wooskey@lemmy.d.thewooskeys.com to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
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I have some of the ATOM Echos that HA describes here. They work for voice recognition but the speaker in these tiny boxes is...tiny. It's barely audible when standing right next to the box, and completely inaudible when standing 10 feet away or if there is noise in the room.

Examples of the voice responses I'm talking about are "I'm sorry but I don't understand that" or "The current time is 2:15pm" or "I turned on the lights in the living room."

Is it possible to re-route the voice responses to a different media player? Currently, I have a Google Home Mini in each room that I have an ATOM Echo in. It would be nice if I could somehow determine which ECHO received the voice command, which area that Echo was in (e.g., "living room"), and then re-route the voice response to a media player in that area.

But I have no idea how to do this.

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[โ€“] Cooljimy84@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure there is a better way, but I seem to remember there was a watch folder integration that you could use to watch the TTS folder and then play that new file on a speaker. Not sure how you could then play it on the correct speaker, and I'm sure someone else has a much better real solution than this

[โ€“] mike_wooskey@lemmy.d.thewooskeys.com 1 points 9 months ago

I'll try to look into this. Thanks.