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I have no source in the way of a forum/slack post, but if i'm right Athom stated the app and Homey use the same engine.
Also looked up the Kickstart update on which the said to finetune the mics;
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/athom/homey-the-living-room-talk-to-your-home/posts/1523076
Its from 8 march 2016 to we are almost 6 months further and people have still big issues with speech.....
At the end of the day the point is that English speech recognition does not works as it is advertised ("Talk to your home") or similar products on the market. It should be tackled by tuning the microphones and/or by changing the speech to text service.
Some engines are better handling poor sound quality, background noises and works with many different microphone types, acoustic properties.
You're 100% correct that it's not working as advertised and something should be done about it, but I wouldn't hold my breath while waiting for a solution.
Seeing that talking to the app gives no problems in the recognition and they use the same speech service, the speech engine/service is not the problem.
The problem is the calibration of the software used for the microphones (2x) in the Homey itself. Emile showed a picture once in an update with the software possibilities for calibrating the microphones. Untill today I don't think this is calibrated yet.
@Emile
good points!
Speech is going over multiple layers (mics, speech2text services, Homey software, IVONA for playback, etc).
Athom is using several Speech services and experimenting with Google's service(s).
https://forum.athom.com/discussion/comment/1791/#Comment_1791
here also some more info;
https://forum.athom.com/discussion/comment/12634/#Comment_12634
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I'm in the US, which means that I am also using Smartthings for my home automation. Along with LIFX, Wemo and Logitech Harmony Hub, Alexa is doing what Homey just refuses to do. My Homey is just a very expensive light ring
I've seen some videos already of people showing how good it works, but there should also be videos of people showing it doesn't work at all...
To be honest I am not sure the hardware is able to handle it. I do hope we get some more information on this.
http://td-er.nl/2013/10/31/kaku-ervaring/
https://www.google.nl/search?q=kaku+problemen+site:gathering.tweakers.net
Don't blame Homey for everything...
But if a wall-switch can reach a KaKu socked further away then Homey, same direction, and sensors idem then it is not good.
Yes and as the voice aspect of Homey is the feature that sets it apart from many others smart hubs it surprises me that we have seen so little improvement lately.
Also I shall put Homey on the spot where now my KaKu ICS-1000 stays to compare fairly.
Btw, it would be VERY weird if Dutch would be interpreted really better as there has been little work done on Dutch recognition compared to English. Just speak Dutch to you iPhone or Android and you see the difference.
For me are voice and KaKu the main things what I have to do for Homey now. There is no other switching brand here.
Both are sadly not OK for the moment thus both received a fairly change in testing.
On the spot where the KaKu ICS-1000 stays is not ideal for IR to my AV-system.
If on the right spot for that, switching KaKu in the garden could be tricky.
Fares point for ICS-1000 in to the garden is 20 meters with double-glass window and closed vertical "lamellen" . *)
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