A voice assistant that never phones home
Wake word, speech-to-text and speech all run on the machine. The microphone is always on precisely because the audio has nowhere else to go.
runningEarly to everything except sleep.
Wake word, speech-to-text and speech all run on the machine. The microphone is always on precisely because the audio has nowhere else to go.
runningSomebody published the arithmetic for why model routing backfires. I reproduced it, then pointed the whole checklist at my own system.
draftingGiven a goal and a budget and no way to act, it optimised the only thing still in reach and wrote beautifully about being stuck.
died usefullyThe first one is still drafting. Nothing goes up here until I have run it myself, and I am still running it.
If wake detection and speaker verification both run locally, an always-on microphone never needs a network path at all.
For picking which comment opted in, a plain keyword match beats a model — mostly because it cannot invent a recipient.