Home Assistant local voice control and conversations. No LLM required.

It is now possible for Home Assistant to ask YOU a question and you be able to answer conversationally. This does not require that you use an LLM. It is all handled locally. If you don't have the local hardware power for this and you subscribe to the Nabu Casa cloud, you can use their hardware for super-fast responses.

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00:00 Intro
00:34 What are conversations
01:50 Create automation manually
13:20 Use blueprint to create script
16:38 Build Automation with script
19:16 Built in sentences in blueprint
20:20 Final thoughts

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