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HA is making good progress toward a home automation voice assistant, which is definitely cool, but I have read about where it works as a general voice assistant. Siri is a good general voice assistant and Apple is making good progress toward home automation, so I’d go in that direction too. As soon as a new HonePod comes out to support on-device AI, I’m in
Unfortunately they still seem like they have a long way to go.
A huge part of the problem seems to be availability of good, reasknably-priced Appliance hardware. I'm looking for something that I don't have to build, that is $100 or so, and that's at least reasonably good (like, I'd accept the sound and microphone quality of the 1st gen echo mini which weren't that great.
But nothing like that seems to exist. Hopefully there's something now and I've just missed it.