Voice assistants are neat — they let us interface with computers without having to bother with touching them at all. Still, many decry the perceived privacy intrusion these devices present, as they’re always trucking data off to corporate servers for all kinds of opaque reasons. Building your own standalone assistant is a way to get around that, and that’s precisely what [Tristram] did.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://hackaday.com/2024/03/21/your-voice-assistant-doesnt-have-to-be-cloudy/