Home Assistant Podcast Home Assistant 2025.3 lands with more dashboard improvements
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Mar 4, 2025 The latest release brings exciting dashboard enhancements, making user interaction more intuitive and visually appealing. There's a fascinating discussion on the new Speech-to-Phrase feature, allowing for local voice command processing. SmartThings collaborates with Home Assistant for smoother integration, while media player updates enhance user experiences with voice assistance. They also delve into the challenges of integrating various smart devices and share insights on new mapping features and backup capabilities to elevate home automation.
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Local Voice Command Processing
- Home Assistant's new Speech to Phrase transcribes speech locally in under a second, even on a Raspberry Pi 4.
- This eliminates cloud dependency for common voice commands by training a local model on user's devices and entities.
Dashboard Enhancements
- Home Assistant 2025.3 focuses on dashboard improvements, including a new header view with markdown support.
- This header view, however, currently only works with the sections layout type.
Tile Card UI Improvement
- Tile cards in Home Assistant now have improved UI, removing shadows for non-interactive icons.
- This makes it clearer which elements are actionable, enhancing user experience.