"Follow up" conversation without wake word

Configuration Voice Assistant
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Ive managed to get my Atom Echo working as a voice assistant, and im using it with ChatGPT.

What I want to achieve is that it listens for follow up speech after the initial response, and if it it hears nothing, goes back to listening for a wake word after say 20 seconds.

I thought this would be pretty straightforward by modifying the code given for wakeword voice assist device to restart voice assistant in the ‘on_end’ part of the configuration but nomatter what I do it doesnt listen to anything else and instead I have to use the wakeword.

It seems other people want this a there is a feature request for exactly what I want. Has anyone managed to do anything like this with the currently available software? I dont really understand why adding ‘voice_assistant.start’ to the end of ‘on_end’ doesnt just…start the voice assistant as if the wake word had been spoken?

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And, typically, witthin minutes of posting this I think I have found the solution - i had to explicity turn ‘use wake word’ on and off as appropriate within the automation.

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Hello I am a yaml noob can you post the code you have and it’s currently working for you ?

Thanks!

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Hello…
I, also, would like to see your code. Its a great feature to test.