Before the move I started a little Simple Voice Assistant project. It was going to basically be an Amazon Alexa-like device using a Raspberry Pi. The big pieces are Speech To Text (STT) and Text To Speech (TTS). I put it aside for a few months and now it seems everything is broken. This is mostly due to versions of software changing and updating and becoming incompatible. A common (modern) software problem. I also have grown disenchanted with OpenAI and their Whisper tool. Looking for a replacement I found a list of software that I hadn’t run across and it seems to make good recommendations for STT and TTS. Looks like I’m going to restart with VOSK and Piper.

Top 15 Open Source Speech Recognition/TTS/STT/ Systems