Build a voice assistant on Raspberry Pi using ElevenLabs and Open Meteo, so you get live forecasts hands free.

Pocket TTS is an open-source text-to-speech model that runs on CPUs, clones voices from 5 seconds of audio, and keeps voice ...

Not crazy about talking to Siri, Alexa or Gemini? You can easily create a voice assistant-free smart home with these tricks.

Speechify today released its Voice AI Assistant on iOS, after previously offering it only on Chrome and the web. Here are the ...

While I enjoy tinkering with Home Assistant to make my smart devices work, I ensure all of them are manageable locally. While axing most cloud-dependent services, the only thing I miss is voice ...

Pipit is a free Mac dictation app that works offline. It can be used to do more than just transcribe speech—it can launch ...

CNET’s expert staff reviews and rates dozens of new products and services each month, building on more than a quarter century of expertise. The new, large language model-fueled version of Alexa is ...

Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant has been around for over a decade now. But over the past few years, it’s felt like Amazon was neglecting its digital assistant. In my own home, I found it buggier and ...