Local AI use cases with Kokoro
Kokoro is an open-weight text-to-speech model that runs locally. It's used as an alternative to Piper in self-hosted voice assistants.
Rebel BitesReplacing Google Nest Minis with local Assist on llama.cpp
After a year of Nest Minis getting dumber, a household moved to fully local Assist. Higher-quant GGUF models from Hugging Face are what finally fixed tool calling.