https://kw.gl/Recent content on kw.glHugoenWed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://kw.gl/posts/voice/Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://kw.gl/posts/voice/One day of comparing speech-to-text, voices and AI ‘brains’ for a Home Assistant voice assistant, with Claude doing the measuring. The fast, natural setup on a Mac Studio lost to an old Dell OptiPlex: GigaAM turns speech into text in 0.2–0.3 s, Silero speaks in about 0.2 s, my own sentences answer most requests at home, and ChatGPT (or a small local model when the internet is down) only gets what’s left.https://kw.gl/posts/hrv/Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://kw.gl/posts/hrv/The second half of my JARVIS weekend. The company behind my ventilation’s app went bankrupt, and the only control left was a panel on the wall. On Sunday Claude and I decoded the panel’s cable, put a small Wi-Fi adapter on a socket nobody used, and now Home Assistant sets the fan speed from the CO2 in the rooms.https://kw.gl/posts/water-meter/Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://kw.gl/posts/water-meter/The city’s sealed radio sits on my water meter and covers part of the digits. A small camera in a 3D-printed holder reads them anyway, and Home Assistant fixes the one digit the camera keeps getting wrong.