Did you know that you can easily integrate an external smart speaker with your voice assistant using ESPHome? In this video, we'll show you how to use ESPHome to connect your M5Stack Atom Echo or ESP32 S3 Box to your Home Assistant setup. Enhance your voice assistant experience with better sound quality today!

NOTE:
Change the i2s_dout_pin: GPIO22 to i2s_dout_pin: GPIO21 in the speaker section: Also prevents the internal Atom Echo speaker from playing. Thanks @revilo819!

You can download the code I created for this video at: https://ko-fi.com/s/1175278343

Links mentioned in this video:
* How to configure voice assistants / What's new in Home Assistant May 2023.5? Voice, Voice and Voice! : https://youtu.be/nh3jnPGAtMI
* Local voice assistance with Wake Word in Home Assistant – Bye bye Alexa and Google Home: https://youtu.be/VAFDgib95Ls
* Firmware file for M5Stack Atom Echo: https://github.com/esphome/firmware/blob/main/voice-assistant/m5stack-atom-echo.yaml
*Firmware (list) for ESP32 S3 Box models: https://github.com/esphome/firmware/tree/main/voice-assistant

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00:00:00 Presentation
00:01:54 Atom Echo code update
00:03:00 Selecting your smart speaker
00:05:14 Installing new firmware for the voice assistant
00:06:30 Ensure the ESPHome device can call services in Home Assistant
00:07:02 Testing Voice Assistant's response using a smart speaker

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