I recently picked up the Home Assistant Voice Preview, essentially a smart speaker not unlike a Google Home Mini or an Amazon Echo Dot. The difference is that you control it, creating your own ...

With modern voice assistants we can tell a computer to play our favorite music, check the weather, or turn on a light. Like many of us, [nerdaxic] gave in to the convenience and perceived simplicity ...

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