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How to intercept Assistant voice responses? (lemmy.d.thewooskeys.com)

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I have some of the ATOM Echos that HA describes here. They work for voice recognition but the speaker in these tiny boxes is...tiny. It's barely audible when standing right next to the box, and completely inaudible when standing 10 feet away or if there is noise in the room.

Examples of the voice responses I'm talking about are "I'm sorry but I don't understand that" or "The current time is 2:15pm" or "I turned on the lights in the living room."

Is it possible to re-route the voice responses to a different media player? Currently, I have a Google Home Mini in each room that I have an ATOM Echo in. It would be nice if I could somehow determine which ECHO received the voice command, which area that Echo was in (e.g., "living room"), and then re-route the voice response to a media player in that area.

But I have no idea how to do this.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This might be a stupid answer, but a quick and dirty solution might be to stick the ATOM Echo inside a cup or other cone shaped object. I've done this at parties to make a phone's speaker appear to be louder.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

This sounds like it wouldn't help much, and whatever increase in volume might be offest by decrease in quality due to echo. But it's free to try (and within my skill set :) ).