Problems with Voice Preview Edition after update to 2025.5.0

[MarcoEnd]

The problem

Voice PE reacts correctly to the wakeword but when I say a command very often the LED ring is blinking (twice) red and the command is not being excuted. I have noticed that if pronounce very clear and slowly the command is sometimnes recognized but in most of the cases the LED blinks already after the first word of the command. I am facing this issue after the update to 2025.5.0 before it was working fine.

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

2025.5.1

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

2025.4.x

What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant OS

Integration causing the issue

ESPHoma - Voice Assitant PE

Link to integration documentation on our website

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/esphome/

Diagnostics information

home-assistant_esphome_2025-05-10T16-53-26.197Z.log

Example YAML snippet

Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

The debug information from the voice assistant:

stage: done
run:
  pipeline: 01gzjrcbzyjffj6v88wfp59z4c
  language: de
  conversation_id: 01JTXH2AD5CP7BCYQ42TPBT9XC
  tts_output:
    token: IafJzGkweC3qd-WmecsGSg.flac
    url: /api/tts_proxy/IafJzGkweC3qd-WmecsGSg.flac
    mime_type: audio/flac
events:
  - type: run-start
    data:
      pipeline: 01gzjrcbzyjffj6v88wfp59z4c
      language: de
      conversation_id: 01JTXH2AD5CP7BCYQ42TPBT9XC
      tts_output:
        token: IafJzGkweC3qd-WmecsGSg.flac
        url: /api/tts_proxy/IafJzGkweC3qd-WmecsGSg.flac
        mime_type: audio/flac
    timestamp: "2025-05-10T16:44:19.256735+00:00"
  - type: stt-start
    data:
      engine: stt.home_assistant_cloud
      metadata:
        language: de-DE
        format: wav
        codec: pcm
        bit_rate: 16
        sample_rate: 16000
        channel: 1
    timestamp: "2025-05-10T16:44:19.258112+00:00"
  - type: error
    data:
      code: stt-stream-failed
      message: Unexpected error during speech-to-text
    timestamp: "2025-05-10T16:44:20.812826+00:00"
  - type: run-end
    data: null
    timestamp: "2025-05-10T16:44:20.813806+00:00"
stt:
  engine: stt.home_assistant_cloud
  metadata:
    language: de-DE
    format: wav
    codec: pcm
    bit_rate: 16
    sample_rate: 16000
    channel: 1
  done: false
error:
  code: stt-stream-failed
  message: Unexpected error during speech-to-text

Additional information

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[bigboban]

I confirm. I see this in esphome log:

[bigboban]

Some interesting note - i have second assistant on M5 stack echo and it works fine.

[clayhands]

Hello came here after having some problems with a Voice PE as well and searching around as well as contacting support.

I get I think a similar error, from the system log:

Logger: homeassistant.components.esphome.manager
Source: components/esphome/manager.py:391
integration: ESPHome ([documentation](https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/esphome), [issues](https://github.com/home-assistant/core/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22integration%3A+esphome%22))
First occurred: 15:25:36 (4 occurrences)
Last logged: 15:26:36

Home Assistant Voice: [W][micro_wake_word:375]: Wake word detection is already running
Home Assistant Voice: [E][component:082]: Component voice_kit is marked FAILED
Home Assistant Voice: [W][component:237]: Component esp32_ble took a long time for an operation (209 ms).
Home Assistant Voice: [W][component:238]: Components should block for at most 30 ms.

Logger: homeassistant.components.cloud.stt
Source: components/cloud/stt.py:119
integration: Home Assistant Cloud ([documentation](https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/cloud), [issues](https://github.com/home-assistant/core/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22integration%3A+cloud%22))
First occurred: May 11, 2025 at 18:07:16 (13 occurrences)
Last logged: 15:19:38

Voice error: Error processing en-US speech: 400 Invalid HTTP request.

However, different from OP my Voice PE does NOT react to the wake word, it appears to be deaf now, I only get the STT error in the logs only by manually triggering the assistant with the button on the Voice PE. What is similar to @bigboban is that I also have a second assistant, also a Voice PE, connected to HA, and that one continues to work as before, only the one of them appears to be broken.

Let me know if I can collect/send any additional logs or do any tests, if helpful

[brianajensen2]

I still have this problem. Does anyone find a solution?"

[inertia666]

I have to change the text to speech engine from Google to Google Translate and it works again.

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