HA Voice as intercom

It would be useful to be able to use HA Voice in “intercom” or “push to talk” mode. When pressing the button or after a specific command like “broadcast the following to room X”, just stream the recorded audio to other HA Voice devices (one or multiple) as-is without any extra delays or speech recognition.

Use case - a way to quickly communicate between rooms of a house that’s superior to yelling.

Release 2025.2 is so close! STT → TTS → Broadcast.

You can now broadcast messages to every other voice assistant in your home.
2025.2: Iterating on backups - Home Assistant

Just not a live voice sample.

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Yep works GREAT when you have an LLM.

Hey Friday, broadcast that 'dinners ready!"

So does, we’re sorry you’ve reached the end of the Internet. Your service will be suspended until we have more internet for you to scroll.

When you simultaneously send that and cut off the router your spouse looks at you strangely.

Nevermind how I know that… But. It works., :joy:

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Any updates on this? I feel like this is a massive missing feature here. Live 2 way audio between two HA voice device would be amazing. I can get my PE to broadcast a message on another PE but no live 2 way intercom yet.

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Yes, intercom would be an excellent feature, not just within the house, but outside in the garage, greenhouse, etc.

Plus, it would make a really excellent gate intercom too (in a suitable enclosure). I’ve been wondering how to hack this with existing modules / features, but a purpose-built feature would be excellent.

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Yes, please do intercom. I’m currently using Amazon Echo Dot devices for that (Drop-In feature) but I would gladly throw them away in favor of local devices that don’t train their AI on my private conversations.

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+1 here for realtime 2-way, intercom capabilities!

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This may work for you:

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Even better, should be possibile to call another HA Voice, like with Alexa, I’m waiting to trash my G Homes for this