[EN] More Natural Responses

[royaltongue]

Having just gotten my Home Assistant Voice PE, and playing around with it a bit, I've noticed that while responses are accurate, they're often very terse. In one particular case, asking it "What time is it?" will have it reply the time like "12:25 am", always.

Personally, I think it would sound a lot more natural if it always responded in sort of a full sentence. Something like "The time is 12:25 am" or even "It's 12:25 am". Quick and to the point, but not so robotic.

For comparison, Google Assistant seems to switch between saying "12:25 am" and "It's 12:25 am" if you trigger it manually while the screen is on (on Android at least). However, if you activate it by saying "Hey Google", it will always respond "It's 12:25 am". Unfortunately my Google Home devices are in storage right now so I can't test that.

Alexa (on an old Echo Dot), will alternate between "It's 12:25 am" and "The time is 12:25 am"

[andreasbrett]

I think it would be a great addition to make responses more natural by introducing something like:

{% set responses = ['The time is XYZ', 'It is XYZ'] %} 
{{ (responses | random) | replace('XYZ', time) }}

Untested and mere pseudo code (on my mobile and on a plane right now...).

[andreasbrett]

I would have also assigned this to @mrdarrengriffin (as EN language leader) but apparently he's one of the 22 members that has been in https://github.com/orgs/home-assistant/teams/language-leaders but is not (yet?) in https://github.com/orgs/OHF-Voice/teams/language-leaders/members.