Home Assistant users can now integrate local AI-powered voice assistants without complex hardware, using tools like Ollama, Qwen3 models, and wake word detection via old smartphones. This setup allows ...

Local LLMs made my Home Assistant setup far more responsive than any app or integration ...

Apple is reportedly planning a standalone Siri app for iOS 27, with chatbot features, app actions, and possible third-party ...

YouTube is now letting users create an AI avatar that looks and sounds like them for use in Shorts. This feature was teased earlier this year. The creation process is available in the main YouTube app ...

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Howard Stern and his wife, Beth Stern, are being sued by their former assistant for allegedly creating a hostile work environment. The couple’s ex-executive assistant Leslie Kuhn states she started ...

AI voice chat makes it easy to talk things through instead of typing everything out. With Copilot Voice, conversations feel natural, responses come back out loud, and you can stay productive while ...

In this episode of eSpeaks, Jennifer Margles, Director of Product Management at BMC Software, discusses the transition from traditional job scheduling to the era of the autonomous enterprise. eSpeaks’ ...

PITTSBURGH — A Pittsburgh-area man is not just giving people living with ALS a voice, he's giving them their own voice. A recent diagnosis just inspired a man with no coding experience to develop a ...

Cloud-based AI dominates the headlines, but responsive and private interaction lies at the edge. This blog post shows how to build a fully offline, real-time voice assistant using the Arm-based NVIDIA ...

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Many people buy a sleek smart speaker and end up using it for just three things: checking the weather, playing music, and setting kitchen timers. That mismatch is absurd because this device was never ...