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Have a [Home Assistant Cloud subscription]? You can now control your smart home via voice from anywhere in the world without giving up your privacy. Multiple Home Assistant servers are supported, so you can just as easily talk to your parent's house:
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Have a [Home Assistant Cloud subscription]? You can now control your smart home via voice from anywhere in the world without giving up your privacy. [Multiple Home Assistant servers are supported], so you can just as easily talk to your parent's house:
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<imgsrc="/images/blog/2023-07-20-year-of-the-voice-chapter-3/multi-server.png"alt="Screenshot of Assist picking a voice assistant"style="max-height: 550px;" />
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Select a voice assistant from any of your configured Home Assistant instances
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[Multiple Home Assistant servers are supported]: /voice_control/android/#using-assist-with-multiple-home-assistant-servers
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### Default digital assistant
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Why open an app if you don't have to? Set Home Assistant as your default digital assistant app! Now, holding the home or power button will instantly bring up Assist:
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Why open an app if you don't have to? Set Home Assistant as your [default digital assistant app]! Now, holding the home or power button will instantly bring up Assist:
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[default digital assistant app]: /voice_control/android/#setting-up-home-assistant-assist-as-default-assistant-app-on-an-android-phone
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## Native Assist on Wear OS
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We didn't leave out watches! Wear OS devices can now natively use Assist as well:
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We didn't leave out watches! Wear OS devices can now natively [use Assist] as well:
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<lite-youtubevideoid="5b7nqGZyeVU"videotitle="Use Assist natively on your Android watch"></lite-youtube>
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Text-to-speech responses are spoken directly from the watch, allowing you to listen instead of looking for confirmation.
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Like the phones, it is possible to set Home Assistant to be your watch's default digital assistant. Pressing the crown or holding the button on your watch now brings up Assist!
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Like the phones, it is possible to set Home Assistant to be your [watch's default digital assistant]. Pressing the crown or holding the button on your watch now brings up Assist!
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[watch's default digital assistant]: /voice_control/android/#setting-up-home-assistant-assist-as-default-assistant-app-on-a-wear-os-watch
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## Sentence triggers
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While [custom sentences] were already part of Assist, they required manually editing YAML. With the new [sentence trigger], you can now add custom sentences directly in the UI:
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## Assist debug tool
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The Home Assistant community is hard at work translating [common smart home commands]. To help contributors, we've added an "Assist" developer tool that lets you test out sentences without actually executing the commands:
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The Home Assistant community is hard at work translating [common smart home commands]. To help contributors, we've added an ["Assist" developer tool] that lets you test out sentences without actually executing the commands:
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[common smart home commands]: https://github.com/home-assistant/intents/
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The upcoming release of the [Piper add-on] for Home Assistant 2023.8 will support 23 languages and over 70 different voices. This will include voices from 7 brand new [voice datasets] contributed by the Home Assistant community. These datasets have been collected and donated to the public domain by Nabu Casa for the benefit of text-to-speech research now and in the future.
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You can use [Piper in automations] to make text-to-speech announcements, or use it as your voice to [setup a fully local assistant].
[Piper in automations]: /voice_control/using_tts_in_automation/
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[setup a fully local assistant]: /voice_control/voice_remote_local_assistant/
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## New ESPHome voice modes
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<ahref="https://shop.m5stack.com/products/atom-echo-smart-speaker-dev-kit?ref=NabuCasa"><imgsrc="/images/blog/2023-07-20-year-of-the-voice-chapter-3/atom_echo.png"alt="ATOM Echo Smart Speaker from M5Stack"style='width:96px;float:right;margin-left:8px;'/></a>
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With hardware like the $13 [ATOM Echo], it was possible in Chapter 2 to [create a push-to-talk voice Assistant using ESPHome](/voice_control/thirteen-usd-voice-remote/).
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With hardware like the $13 [ATOM Echo], it was possible in Chapter 2 to [create a push-to-talk voice Assistant using ESPHome].
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Using the latest ESPHome, you can push a button to start speaking and let Home Assistant detect the end of the voice command. Continuous mode is also available, allowing multiple conversation turns with Assist similar to an analog phone.
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