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one wake word and other sugesions like amazon echo
bob76
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please change the wake word just to one word just like the amazon echo just uses Alexa to wake feels more natural than ok homey
just homey is way way more natural to wake it up or just a custom wake word would be nice to
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They paid good money to have the 'ok homey' sampled for best recognition.
Alexa works so much nicer because when you just say Alexa it wakes dont get me wrong i like the homey even traded my Alexa for one but must say i needs to be smarter out of the box just like Alexa.
Alexa is way smarter from the beginning than the OK homey only better thing is all the wireless conections are on board at the homey.
the homey is more programmable but Alexa wins in a.i. by a mile sorry guys
Alexa plays Dutch radio stations out of the box this i miss very badly at the homey
example when you wiki on Alexa you just get the perfect recap when you ask ok homey wiki someone it reads all the page and not just the summary Alexa = the amazon echo
speech must be way better than now Alexa pics up almost anything can't have a conversation with a word Alexa or Lexa in the same room and it activates homey laks in this you need to really clearly speak to get a command working.
dutch setting and YouTube vids made me change and support Athom but a lot of work is to be done
and for me very important the mini jack port is way to small guys aftermarket plugs don't fit so Hornbach or praxis or gamma enz enz cant help you need to go to a special store to make it fit
dutch setting did not try englisch ones
staff please comment?
Athom on the other hand is a start-up company consisting of less than 20 people, with funds from kickstarter (and I believe some investing round getting double-triple the kickstarter money).
Reality is, Amazon has literally over a thousand times more money to spend on this compared to Athom. Of course they will be better at certain aspects. It is incredibly unfair to expect from Athom to be on par with Amazon Echo.
Opening the api a little bit so we can script text-to-be-send to homey would (imho) address the above somewhat
IFTTT is nice and works brilliantly, but if there is no internet you are dead in the water..
I'd put a cheap android phone in every room listening to a "ok google" trigger and then send that recognized phrase to homey as if i was talking to homey
To in this Homey really sucks. They should use the old motto if you cannot beat them join them
If athom stops wasting time and money on the reinventing the wheel with the worst voice recognition software (even worse than TomTom), and spends time on building a interface to alexa, then within weeks we would have a world beating product.
Did you ever try to tomtom from a distance of more then two meters?
Simple but very Nice to make fun if you have visitors coming over
Check out this vid:
My point is that Athome should maybe recognise their limitations (staff, time, money), and support input via Alexa, until they have sorted out other problems too.
It would be a great help for people who just bought their homey or to get some inspiration. Don't know if they have anything planned like this.