No microphones installed yet - can I use my phone for voice commands?

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I have the OpenAI integration installed in Home Assistant and it’s working as expected.

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I don’t have any microphones in the house yet so I would like to use my phone (using my voice, not typing) to ask ChatGPT to control my smart devices.

But I don’t want to have to:

  • open the Home Assistant app on my phone
  • click the 3 dots on the upper right corner
  • select Assist (A)
  • ask the question

is there a quicker way of doing this? For example is there a way for the phone to listen for these commands using ChatGPT? (not Siri)

Or maybe a dedicated app for voice commands, that you just open and start speaking?

Or any other suggestions?

Thanks

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If only there was ‘hey google’, ‘hey bixby’, or ‘hey artificial intelligence’? Oh wait, ‘artificial intelligence’ isnt…

You KNOW they all listen to you anyway, ALWAYS? This is why I get coffin ads AFTER I attend a funeral, and Amazon wants to sell me a hundred toilet bowls AFTER I have purchased one.

Sometimes they even argue with themselves behind the scenes.

I’ve seen the Model 3 Tesla late engineering prototype when it was first released a few years ago with self driving mode respond to a pocketed Android phone with ‘tesla, come here’ when emerging from a shopping mall with our hands full of shopping bags - I was more terrified of witnessing that process actually happen effortlessly and the car emerge from the car park and pull up to the kerb and unlock itself with no further input, than the hands free drive home in peak hour traffic that night.

Obligatory XKCD Little Bobby Tables DROP TABLE quote here. xkcd: Exploits of a Mom

‘Hey windoze, format c’ on your afternoon radio talkback show might not be a thing yet, but I’m betting ‘hey siri, unlock the front door’ may be something that might be tested by a few trick-or-treaters tonight.

Be careful what you wish for.

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Well, that escalated quickly :anguished:

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Boo! Happy Halloween!

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The HA app can be set as the primary assistant on your phone and activated with a combination of buttons (usually by pressing the power button for a couple of seconds).

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I don’t know why you’re excluding Siri, but on iOS I sometimes use it, since many of my HA entities are exposed to HomeKit.