Fact · Voice and AI
Home Assistant describes Speech-to-Phrase as a close-ended speech model that transcribes only what it knows, with support for only a subset of Assist's voice commands.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“Speech-to-Phrase is a close-ended speech model. It transcribes what it knows.”
Installing a local Assist pipeline, Home Assistant project, Home Assistant, 2026, Speech-to-text engines.
Open the original- What it measures
- Home Assistant offers two local speech-to-text engines for Assist, Speech-to-Phrase and Whisper, and this sentence is its description of the first.
- What it does not show
- A description of design, not a measurement of accuracy. Commands outside the supported set will not be understood.