Tagged "voice-ai"
9 articles tagged voice-ai, 18 February 2026 to 6 June 2026. Newest first.
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Replacing Google Home with Home Assistant and Local LLMs
A practitioner shares their experience replacing Google Home with Home Assistant and a self-hosted local LLM, demonstrating practical benefits of on-device voice automation without cloud dependencies.
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Anker Soundcore Liberty 5 Pro Earbuds Feature Dedicated On-Device AI Chip with Touch Screen
Anker's new earbuds integrate a dedicated AI chip enabling on-device processing for voice commands and AI features, demonstrating consumer-grade hardware optimization for edge inference in form-factor-constrained devices.
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Microsoft VibeVoice C++ Port Enables Local Voice AI on CPU and GPU Without Python
A community port of Microsoft's VibeVoice to C++ now allows local voice AI inference on both CPU and GPU without Python dependencies. This development simplifies deployment and makes voice AI more accessible for local inference implementations.
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Building a Voice AI Wearable in a Casio F91W with Whisper and BLE
A developer successfully embedded voice AI capabilities into a classic Casio F91W watch using an nRF52840 microcontroller, Whisper speech-to-text, and Bluetooth Low Energy. This demonstrates practical on-device speech processing on severely constrained hardware.
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A Journey to a Reliable and Enjoyable Locally Hosted Voice Assistant
An in-depth guide documenting the development and deployment of a fully local voice assistant, covering the complete stack from speech recognition to language understanding and synthesis without cloud dependencies.
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Careless Whisper – Personal Local Speech to Text
A new open-source tool enabling local speech-to-text processing without cloud dependencies, bringing private voice input capabilities to on-device LLM applications.
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IBM Granite 4.0 1B Speech Model Released for Multilingual Speech Recognition
IBM has released Granite-4.0-1b-speech, a compact speech-language model designed for multilingual automatic speech recognition and bidirectional speech translation. At just 1B parameters, it's optimized for on-device deployment with support for diverse language pairs.
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Mihup and Qualcomm Collaborate to Advance Secure On-Device Voice AI for BFSI
Qualcomm and Mihup partner to develop on-device voice AI solutions for banking and financial services, emphasizing security and privacy through local processing.
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Qualcomm Ventures Positions India as Blueprint for Affordable On-Device AI Infrastructure
Qualcomm Ventures' MD highlights how India's scale and infrastructure constraints are driving innovation in efficient, on-device AI that bypasses expensive cloud dependencies.