2023 was the Year of the Voice. It was a yearly objective to let customers management Dwelling Assistant in their very own language. We organized a contest to rejoice what our voice assistants might allow with the neighborhood. The competition entries have been all wonderful, the work produced excellent. Personally, I learnt a lot simply reviewing all of the entries, I learnt that our neighborhood is so inventive and relentless. My private venture checklist grew quite a bit as I need to implement half of the entries at dwelling! Right now is the day we announce the winners!
You will need to word that whereas 12 months of the Voice is over, voice is now a part of Dwelling Assistant similar to automations or dashboards.
The sharp focus is over, however voice will get updates endlessly, similar to each different a part of Dwelling Assistant.
The competition was break up into 4 classes:
- Most inventive satellite tv for pc concepts
- Finest Beginning Guides
- Finest occasions organized, greatest group effort
- Finest voice experiences
You may learn extra in regards to the contest specifics within the blog post announcing the contest.
As a consequence of a scarcity of entries, we eliminated the class “Finest occasions organized, greatest group effort”.
Most creative satellite ideas
The competition was the most fierce in that category!
On the one hand, it pleases me to see how many of you managed to create something unique, quirky, and creative using our voice assistant functionalities. This means that our voice assistant is indeed aligned with our value of Choice. On the other hand, it made picking a winner even more complex 😬.
So without further ado, the winner of the “most creative satellite ideas” category is dirtyharriv and their Bender Voice Assistant.
Congratulations in your entry! Your voice assistant embodies completely what we predict after we discuss selection: Customized wake phrase, customized voice, in-character responses, an attractive 3D printed case, LEDs… It’s good!
Dirtyharriv wins a Dwelling Assistant Inexperienced, a Dwelling Assistant SkyConnect, and a spot on our livestream on the tenth of April to current their venture!
We even have numerous runners-up on this class, all of them win a Dwelling Assistant SkyConnect!
Best Starting Guides
Again, lots of entries in this category, it amazes me to see how many of you tried hard to provide something that could be re-used by other members of the community, whether it was a device that you can purchase, hack, or build yourself, or a series of videos you can follow to set something up in your own home.
Building something is already hard, but building something to offer it to others is even harder. This category was, to me, the category with the biggest amount of work done by the contestants, congratulations to you all.
The winner of the “best starting guides” category is landonr with their homeThing S3.
The homeThing blew us away, it’s an iPod-style distant in your dwelling that ticks so many packing containers: Rotary dial, display, IR blaster, microphone, speaker, battery …
All the pieces is open supply, as much as the customized PCB that landonr created. The ESPHome configuration is open supply. That is the right system to have in your house!
Landonr wins a Dwelling Assistant Inexperienced, a Dwelling Assistant SkyConnect, and a spot on our livestream on the tenth of April to current their venture!
We even have just a few runners-up on this class, all of them win a Dwelling Assistant SkyConnect!
Best voice experiences
This category was not about hardware, it was about providing the best software experience that elevates the voice experience in Home Assistant. I had the most fun reviewing this category because most of the entries can be re-used at home without any particular hardware! Instant improvement of my system!
The winner of the “best voice experiences” category is dinki with their View Assist.
View Help is a whole UI for Help working on an previous Android pill that tries to duplicate the UI of gadgets reminiscent of an Amazon Echo Present. It is extremely full and well-documented, and I believe could be a candidate for absolutely changing a screen-based voice assistant reminiscent of an Amazon Echo Present or a Google Nest Hub.
Dinki wins a Dwelling Assistant Inexperienced, a Dwelling Assistant SkyConnect, and a spot on our livestream on the tenth of April to current their venture!
We even have numerous runners-up on this class, all of them win a Dwelling Assistant SkyConnect!
I need to give a small shout-out to one of many runner-up: Lajos and their improvement of the S3 Box firmware to display text, you probably did one thing I personally thought-about unimaginable within the S3 field, and by no means tried to implement it due to this false assumption. Seeing your entry pushed me to provide it a try to I’m joyful to announce that very soon, the official voice assistant firmware for the S3 packing containers will permit everybody to show the spoken textual content of the request and the response on the display.
Community choice
We also asked you to vote for your favorite entry, the votes were fierce but one entry skyrocketed above the rest.
It is my pleasure to announce that the community vote is Rellu and their HA-Visual-Voice-Assistant.
HA-Visible-Voice-Assistant is a formidable voice expertise that creates on-the-fly AI-generated movies of characters as visible suggestions for Help. The video that Rellu supplies in his entry is absolutely full, with the power to vary characters and language instantly through voice. Nice job!
Rellu wins a Dwelling Assistant Inexperienced, a Dwelling Assistant SkyConnect, and a spot on our livestream on the tenth of April to current their venture!
Thank you
Thank you to the Home Assistant community for subscribing to Home Assistant Cloud to help 12 months of the Voice and the event of Dwelling Assistant, ESPHome, and different tasks basically.
We’ll contact all winners and runners-up within the subsequent few days to arrange transport.
We’re trying ahead to having the winners on the livestream with us on the tenth of April.
I hope you loved this primary Dwelling Assistant contest, relaxation assured that it gained’t be the final.
JLo, Over and Out.
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