A monitor button that turned into a voice assistant
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.