Pronghorn Alternatives

pronghorn reviews and mentions

• OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale
  10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 May 2026

  Looks like everyone is building one of these, I have my own little version that's using streaming STT, it can actually be too fast in some cases, and I have a little ring buffer grabbing audio from before the wake word detection fires (so it can hear "Hey Jarvis, turn on the lights" without deliberate pause) https://github.com/jaggederest/pronghorn/

• I don't want your PRs anymore
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Apr 2026

  I've actually been doing this for my own purposes - an adhoc buggy half-implemented low latency version of Project Wyoming from home assistant.

  Repo, for those interested: https://github.com/jaggederest/pronghorn/

  I find that the core issues really revolve around the audience - getting it good enough that I can use it for my own purposes, where I know the bugs and issues and understand how to use it, on the specific hardware, is fabulous. Getting it from there to "anyone with relatively low technical knowledge beyond the ability to set up home assistant", and "compatible with all the various RPi/smallboard computers" is a pretty enormous amount of work. So I suspect we'll see a lot of "homemade" software that is definitely not salable, but is definitely valuable and useful for the individual.

  I hope, over the long to medium term, that these sorts of things will converge in an "rising tide lifts all boats" way so that the ecosystem is healthier and more vibrant, but I worry that what we may see is a resurgence of shovelware.