https://arashtaher.com/tags/voice-assistant/ Recent content in Voice-Assistant on Arash Taher Hugo en-us Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:35:00 +0000 https://arashtaher.com/blog/learning-local-llms-for-an-offline-voice-assistant/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:35:00 +0000 https://arashtaher.com/blog/learning-local-llms-for-an-offline-voice-assistant/ <p>With the recent developments in local LLMs, building an offline voice assistant that actually works started to feel like a plausible idea. I was also looking for a project that would teach me how to build LLM-based applications that can run on the edge.</p> <p>This is a short summary of that journey: from knowing very little about running inference to having a quantized, optimized voice assistant running on my machine.</p>