Voice Edition Preview (and Wyoming Satellite) slow after update to 2026.1

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I ran a few updates at the same time. I probably shouldn’t have for this very reason, but, I’m here now.

I updated ESP Home, Voice Preview Edition, and Home Assistant Core.
Now, my wyoming Satellites and my Voice Preview edition are MUCH slower to resolve commands.

I used to say “Lights on/off” and it was near instant to respond and turn them on or off.
Now, the lights on the PE spin for 2-4 seconds before the lights finally turn off.

When trying to directly from the Voice Assistant pipeline, it’s instantaneous.

I’m at a loss here to track down where the delay has been introduced, but given that it’s not just the PE, but also a Satellite, both of which were working fine until these updates, I’m inclined to believe it’s the HA core update to 2026.1 that introduced the glitch.

Anyone else seeing this? Anyone found a fix?

Apparently this is the likely culprit

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What are you using for STT and TTS?

You can watch esp device logs in esphome device builder

It will give timing of command so you can see where lag is introduced.

Also how is it when run from phone or PC?

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I’ve tried using Home Assistant Cloud for everything, and I’ve also tried using Gemini as the conversation agent.

In troublehsooting with Gemini, we came back with the Proxmox box hadn’t been set to Host for the CPU. So, I did that, and then it came back with a pre and post comparision of the lag.

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It appears that the delay is in the Voice Activity Detection (VAD) stage.
I set it to Aggressive to close it out quicker, and it helped… but it’s still much longer than pre 2026.1 (or 2026.1.1)

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sileroVAD had been introduced (2026.1), they had tried to make it more performing on less performing devices but it didn’t work (2026.1.1), now with the next release we go back to microVAD and the problem should be solved

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2026.2 fixed it up.
Looks like they reverted to MicroVAD

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How to update to 2026.2 ?

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It should simply appear in the updates, they also updated the entire Linux OS, now everything is faster than ever, I hope they don’t move anything else because now it’s perfect