As Snowden told us, video and audio recording capabilities of your devices are NSA spying vectors. OSS/Linux is a safeguard against such capabilities. The massive datacenter investments in US will be used to classify us all into a patriotic (for Israel)/Oligarchist social credit score, and every mega tech company can increase profits through NSA cooperation, and are legally obligated to cooperate with all government orders.
Speech to text and speech automation are useful tech, though always listening state sponsored terrorists is a non-NSA targeted path for sweeping future social credit classifications of your past life.
Some small LLMs that can be used for speech to text: https://modal.com/blog/open-source-stt
We’ve got local llm models, we’ve got local text to speech, isn’t it a matter of time until someone puts in the work to build one? It shouldn’t be surprising. I’m surprised there weren’t more of them.
If you follow programming communities, the most popular thing beginners say they want to build these days is “local AI chat assistant” or some variant of the concept.