A note before you listen: this episode's deep dive was produced in NotebookLM. NotebookLM is our executive producer. It also mispronounces Ollama as "Alama" about forty times. We use AI to talk about AI. When the AI hits its limit, we point at it instead of hiding it.

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Three recipes for a voice assistant that doesn't have to phone home.

Recipe 1 takes ten minutes — a browser-based Jarvis you can run today.

Recipe 2 takes thirty minutes — a one-command local install with Ollama.

Recipe 3 takes a weekend — Home Assistant Voice PE, replacing Alexa entirely.

I built one. I read the receipts on two more. Here's what each actually costs in time, money, and trade-offs.

Read the full article: https://aifrankly.substack.com/p/the-local-jarvis

CHAPTERS:

00:00 - The Smart Home Illusion

03:30 - Recipe 1: The Browser Jarvis

07:45 - The Browser API Privacy Trap

12:00 - Recipe 2: The One-Command Jarvis

15:30 - Why It Knows When You Stop Talking

18:15 - The Hardware Reality Check

22:00 - Recipe 3: The Whole-Home Jarvis

26:45 - The Frustrating Five-Second Delay

30:00 - The Honest Bill

32:15 - The Partner Test

34:30 - Local Is Not a Security Policy

36:45 - Auditing Microphone Vulnerabilities

40:30 - High-End and Cloud Alternatives

44:15 - Am I Tony Stark?

RECEIPTS:

- Ollama: https://ollama.com

- Home Assistant Voice PE: https://www.home-assistant.io/voice_control/

- Kokoro TTS: https://github.com/hexgrad/kokoro

- NetworkChuck's local AI tutorials: youtube.com/@NetworkChuck

- Eddie Chen's voice assistant builds: youtube.com/@EddieChen

- Smart Home Solver's HA Voice PE testing: youtube.com/@SmartHomeSolver

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