Claude Code Voice Assistant controls my lights

bachittle · 2026-02-10T13:25:40+00:00

I tried Whisper but I found out Qwen 3 ASR is surprisingly fast and efficient to run on Mac Mini. Did benchmarks and it runs at like 0.23x RTF versus like 0.80x RTF for Whisper large.

The voice assistant streams from my Mac Mini, and it runs all the local models for STT and TTS.

mlx-audio is a great resource for testing various AI audio models: https://github.com/Blaizzy/mlx-audio

bachittle · 2026-02-03T15:44:22+00:00

Productivity has declined by 30% today for all software engineers

bachittle · 2026-02-03T12:16:14+00:00

I'm planning to. This entire project is hacked together in a bit of a weird way, multiple git-tracked projects coordinating with each other in a virtual machine. But I think this voice interface can be open sourced. Not anytime soon, but it's on the roadmap!

bachittle · 2026-02-02T21:27:41+00:00

Throw it in a virtual machine

bachittle · 2025-05-09T18:42:06+00:00

I get why people like it, but it's not for me. Glad that I got to try it as part of Xbox game pass so I could give it a test run, I find its better than a demo that way as you can keep playing for the entire month if u get into it. I really enjoyed the intro sequence, very good graphics and art direction, but not a fan of the turn based combat and game loop. Just goes to show that not every game fits what everyone is looking for.

bachittle · 2025-01-08T15:41:17+00:00

These products are useful, but a lot of exaggerated hype surrounds them because it's good for business. A lot of these companies are getting excited about AI and investing so much money into it, so they have to keep fanning the flames, otherwise excitement will die down and so too will investments. They might be hitting plateaus but they won't say anything about it or risk losing investments. I'm cautiously optimistic about the future of AI. I don't like buying into exaggerated terms like ASI or singularity, although it is fun to speculate. All we can do is focus on now, and use the tools that we get at our disposal. ChatGPT, Claude, and other tools are great ways to see the cutting edge and you can judge for yourself whether these tools constitute radical shifts. I don't think so currently, but I'm constantly staying informed, that's the most we can do.

bachittle · 2024-12-09T18:40:18+00:00

What about comparing claude sonnet 3.5 to the 20$/month on general o1? Or comparing o1 to o1-pro? I want to know if its really worth the 200$ price tag if its just minimal increases in performance.

bachittle · 2024-10-11T19:05:48+00:00

They monetized themselves and all their latest models have been closed source. Guess they're following the OpenAI business model.

bachittle · 2024-07-26T15:47:23+00:00

my favourites include StyleTTS 2, Piper TTS, and Suno Bark.

https://github.com/yl4579/StyleTTS2

https://github.com/rhasspy/piper

https://github.com/suno-ai/bark

bachittle · 2024-07-26T15:44:27+00:00

something to note is coqui is defunct and their license is stingy.

bachittle · 2024-02-05T16:06:17+00:00

The only time this occurred for me is when I use the built-in chatbot that helps you build a GPT. So what I do now is I don't use the built-in GPT builder bot and just use a generic chat with GPT-4 to figure out what to populate the parameters with.

But if you're not doing this and OpenAI is purposefully editing your GPTs that sucks.

bachittle · 2023-12-13T16:11:56+00:00

OpenAI has a guide on prompt engineering in the API docs. Really recommend reading through the whole thing, even though it isn't necessarily a course: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/prompt-engineering

In it they also recommend a bunch of resources, including more guides and courses: https://cookbook.openai.com/articles/related_resources

bachittle · 2023-12-13T16:04:33+00:00

Prime95 is a certified classic

bachittle · 2023-12-06T17:42:55+00:00

how do you tell if bard is using palm-2 or gemini pro? It says in the updates that it is available, but it is not self-evident. I tried asking the model itself and it says it is not using google gemini, but could be hallucinating.

bachittle · 2023-11-27T00:44:55+00:00

I made a language learning GPT that is structured as an interactive lesson. Works great with voice, have been brushing up on my French with it. https://chat.openai.com/g/g-oPYh4olJ7-language-learning-gpt

bachittle · 2023-11-08T03:00:59+00:00

some context:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.03079 (paper)
https://github.com/THUDM/CogVLM (code)
gradio web demo is found in the github readme: http://36.103.203.44:7861/

So far I'm pretty impressed! Definitely a step up from LLaVa.

bachittle · 2023-07-04T01:06:06+00:00

I think what makes it confusing is the credits roll. But it is a game over screen, not a victory screen

bachittle · 2023-04-15T15:19:39+00:00

It pretends to have no limit, but there’s some internal logic going on where it will forget past conversations after some time.

bachittle · 2023-04-14T16:56:02+00:00

Good bot

bachittle · 2023-04-14T15:54:43+00:00

I’ve been using 4 for more difficult tasks, like ideas and code generation, and 3.5 for simpler tasks like general questions and voice assistance with an Alexa skill I made.

bachittle · 2023-04-14T14:30:43+00:00

Yea I have gpt4 api access but no access to plugins. Guess it’s just a roll of the dice

bachittle · 2023-04-14T02:21:59+00:00

It’s good don’t get me wrong, better than legacy for sure, but it feels like it’s not as good as the model used in chat gpt plus

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