balloob on Nostr: New technology is not always better. It's new and shiny, but has flaws that still ...

New technology is not always better. It's new and shiny, but has flaws that still need to be ironed out and often requires a lot more resources to run. Speech-to-Text models are no different. Whisper is great if you have a powerful computer and speak English.

With Home Assistant, we need something that works for everyone, even on affordable, but low-powered devices. We took technology from the last decade, polished it up, created tooling around it, and the result we call Speech-to-Phrase.