Can Assist be used to route to different AIs based on a spoken keyword? For example, beginning a spoken command with “Research” forks the query to Gemini rather than local Ollama.
I know I can launch an Automation with a custom intent. But I assume that doesn’t pass the entities I have chosen to expose from Voice Assistant.
I do think that, long term, the devs need to think about how Voice is a subset of AI. Voice Assistant is obviously just one of several user interfaces that may use an AI. “Expose” really should not belong to Voice alone.
I do find what the devs have done with Assist to be clever and an excellent design for the many low power machines running HA.
Locally I’m currently using GPT-OSS for standard and Qwen3 VL for vision. I use Gemini 2.5 flash API for when Qwen3 is busy. I keep AI separate from HAOS, whisper, adguard etc that I want to always be fast.