Give the voice model an "alexa" instead of tool calling

1 year to solve tool calling for voice? nah, just give it a home assistant.

9000 iq idea, ur welcome

@mrwise, haha alright, bold pitch 😄 I get what you’re aiming at though.

Feels like the pain point is less “tool calling is hard” and more “it’s not seamless enough for real voice workflows yet.” That’s something a few folks have been bumping into too.

Quick question so this is actually useful to pass along: what kind of setup are you imagining with Home Assistant? Like simple commands (lights, media) or more complex multi-step automations?

Would help ground the idea a bit more for others reading this too.

-Mark G.

well the meme guy with the timer for running his marathon for example, setting a timer happens to be one of the most common alexa commands. let’s say you’re talking with someone, and they go “alexa set a timer for ..”, in that conversation it’s not disruptive. alexa look up the weather in, alexa find xyz..

I mean unless you can like just fix the seamlessness under the hood of course but I guess that’s what altman thinks might take a year, idk what that looks like

edit; sorry for the late response I was traveling