I got some Atom Echos, configured them, and they work! I even customized my own wakeword and it worked on the first try. Thanks, Home Assistant team, for such an awesome product as Home Assistant and for fantastic documentation.
Though the Echos and voice recognition works, I’m waiting about 28 seconds between speaking and having Home Assistant respond. “OK Nabu, do the thing”…then I wait ~28 seconds and then at the same time I hear the Echo say “Done” and Home Assistant responds.
Is the delay due to the Echos being small/cheap/slow processors? They react instantly to the wakeword, but perhaps that requires less processing power because it’s trained. Is the delay due to forwarding the audio content of my spoken word over the network to Home Assistant so Whisper can process it? I’m able to transfer other content over my network very quickly, and I doubt the data size of a few spoken words is very large. Is the delay in Whisper processing my spoken command?
What has your experience been with the Echos and openwakeword?
I got an atom echo 2 months ago and was so happy when the wale word was added as before having to press the button and having it tethered defeated the purpose in my opinion.
Using the echo I make sure it’s in the same room as me (on a USB portable charger) and I get maybe a second or two delay. My issue has been setting up custom sentences to control a media player volume, followed their example in the docs for a media player but no errors and no action.