I guess if I wanted AI in HA this would be how I’d want it done, but I don’t really want it at all, so that’s sort of a moot point.
Good thing fall is around the corner
It’s not mentioned in the release notes anywhere, but the 2025.8 update has subtly changed the shade of blue used in the UI:

It’s been throwing me off a bit ever since I updated.
Does the streaming text to speech apply only to Piper running in home assistant cloud or does it include locally hosted Piper? The release notes aren’t very clear on this.
I am quite unhappy with the update as i get a strong feeling of enshittification by the recent decent changes. the color…meh…what is that new blue? dirty blue? anyway, when i wanted to konfigure the mqtt broker i needed to click on 1.settings, 2.integrations,3.konfigure mqtt now with the enshittified UI i need to click 1.settings, 2.integrations,3.mqtt ugly UI, 4.arrow to uncollapse all entries,5. cog to get to konfigure.
sucks a lot!