Getting Voice Onto a CPU (Part 2): More Attempts at Qwen3 TTS
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ONNX quantisation tuning produced great RTF numbers and unusable audio. A GGUF runtime with worse numbers won on the only test that mattered.
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Getting Voice Onto a CPU: CPU-Only ASR and TTS for Fulloch
How Fulloch’s CPU tier runs speech recognition and text-to-speech on a CPU-only PC
Watching a Voice Assistant Get Dumber: Qwen3.5 from 9B Down to 0.8B
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Same conversation, same prompt, same tools, four model sizes. Watching Fulloch degrade from a capable agent into something that confuses the World Cup with Formula 1.
A Year Building a Fully Local Home Voice Assistant
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A first year development diary of Fulloch, the Fully Local Home voice assistant.