Vosk on-device Speech-to-text

Since I’ve started using GrapheneOS, a deGoogled Android build, I’ve missed several services you typically get from Apple or Google on my device, one of those core services is Speech-to-Text. It helps a lot to speed up note taking, writing text messages, etc. I’ve been using a very crude Vosk keyboard on Android to fill …

Lessons Learned, First Year of Homeschool in Review

Ahh Summer! We are currently on our Summer migration North to Maine, from Florida. Now is a good time to revisit the past year in review. Spoiler alert, it was a huge success. In this short article I’ll cover where we started, what worked, and how we adapted through our first year of homeschooling our …

Building a Conversational AI Chatbot + 3D Avatar

The goal for this project is to build a voice-to-voice CAI (Conversational AI) integration with an interactive 3D Avatar. Initially, it will integrate with SAP Conversational AI, which despite it’s name, is a text-to-text service. So, round trip looks like voice-to-text => CAI => text-to-voice, out to the user. Hopefully the performance isn’t terrible. Here’s …

Starting again

I’m rebooting this old site into a WordPress blog, as well as this ancient Twitter account, to keep track of my entrepreneurial endeavors. I recently joined an interesting group, run by dvassallo around making small bets. Building small products, SaaS, Educational, physical, and otherwise. Little products, that when you sufficiently define and execute them, they …