Voica Assistant : M5 Atom Echo - using Google Home Speaker for TTS

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Thanks to the post: ESPHome Voice Assistant speech output to Home Assistant Media Player - #21 by thewebmachine
I have been able to eliminate the internal speaker.

My customization of the code does not contain the speaker section, only the voice_assistant variant of the one listed above:

voice_assistant:
  noise_suppression_level: 4     # increase noise suppression to 3 -or- 4 from default 2 for better sound floor suppression
  volume_multiplier: 5.0     # increase multiplier from 2.0 to 5.0 to give the mic a little boost...going above 5.0 with Atom Echo resulted in distorted audio for me
  speaker: !remove     # remove the default 'echo_speaker' entry so VA doesn't use internal speaker at all. NOTE: THIS ALSO DISABLES SOUND FOR TIMERS but LED will still flash on finish
  on_tts_end:
     - homeassistant.service:
         service: media_player.play_media
         data:
           entity_id: media_player.name_of_a_player # <- this to be changed to actual media_player
           media_content_id: !lambda 'return x;'
           media_content_type: music
           announce: "false"

Hope it helps.

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