Is anyone doing always-on voice to text with a local llama at home?

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  1. llama_farm

    Discontinued Use local llama LLM or openai to chat, discuss/summarize your documents, youtube videos, and so on.

    Bark and another one I forgot. See this for example implementation.

  2. SaaSHub

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  3. talk

    Let's make sand talk (by yacineMTB)

  4. nerd-dictation

    Simple, hackable offline speech to text - using the VOSK-API.

  5. willow

    Open source, local, and self-hosted Amazon Echo/Google Home competitive Voice Assistant alternative

    I have something similar running locally using https://github.com/toverainc/willow and a python script.

  6. vllm

    A high-throughput and memory-efficient inference and serving engine for LLMs

    I believe this is the api I was referring to https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm

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