It would be nice to get some sort of audible feedback from voice satellite when it is listening. Siri, Alexa and Google all give you some sort of sound that it has detected it’s wake word and is listening to you.
Shouldn’t have to speak your entire command to find out if assist is even listening.
I (thought) that that is one of the things you can act on thru the pipeline. I am not a voice expert, but I believe it is something that you can access within espHome, so I’m thinking you can get to it from the Assist pipeline as well.
You may want to verify this in Voice Assistant - Home Assistant Community. Or perhaps someone that knows more can chime in as well.
Looking at some of the videos in the Voice Competition it appears this exists - watch the way it reacts when you start talking to it
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As far as I can find, there is no such option for pi based satellites with openwakeword. Until just recently esphome devices had to be 24/7 Livestream to HA for HA to monitor the wale word.
I know there was a way to have esphones illuminate LEDs, but nothing native for pi satellites. The LED is better than zero nothing, but an audible response is much more usable then having to look right at speaker.
Esphome devices have LED acknowledgement, but nothing for pi or Android tablets. Audible acknowledgement is significantly more practical then LEDs that require you to look directly at speaker (and most would not have such a vibrant and obvious ight source).
The response you heard was not an acknowledgement that it was ready to hear a command, but that it processed the command (which was probably a script).
I am asking for acknowledgement it is ready to listen (vs saying the whole command to see if it even registered the wake word)
This option may have been added since your post, but for anyone else who looks at this topic…
On a Raspberry Pi running wyoming-satellite, in the script/run command add options
–awake-wav sounds/awake.wav
–done-wav sounds/done.wav
for audible feedback when it starts listening and finishes listening respectively.
Files should be stored (on my RasPi setup anyway) in the ~/wyoming-satellite/recordings/sounds directory.
Wyoming-openwakeword has surprisingly few options, but wyoming-satellite has a lot … though many appear to be undocumented except in the script/run --help
With Voice Assist we are dealing with at least 3 hardware platforms, so an issue with one is often not relevant for another platform … and users (let alone newbies) often forget that there are other platforms which may look-and-feel the same, but be very different under the hood.
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