- Welcome, new members! Start here
A short tour: categories on the left, Home for the highlights. Introduce yourself in General, ask in Help & Support, and show what you built in Show & Tell. Be…
4 - Community guidelines (please read)
Be kind and stay on topic. No spam or hard selling. Say what you tried when you ask for help. Moderators may hide posts that break these rules, and we always e…
6 - XIRO uses a lot of RAM with a local model: is that normal?
Task Manager shows about 9 GB while a 7B model is loaded.
4 - Streaming ASR: Whisper variants vs newer models for real time
What are you running for sub-second partial transcripts, and on what hardware?
4 - Voice cloning of my own voice, locally
I want replies in my own voice for voice notes, with nothing leaving the PC.
4 - Testing voice apps: how to automate regression tests
Recorded audio fixtures plus intent assertions?
4 - Healthcare data and local models: red lines
Where is local fine, and where does regulation still bite?
4 - Bluetooth headset: XIRO listens to the laptop mic instead
Audio plays in the headset but the microphone stays on the laptop.
4 - Education with a patient AI tutor: promise and risks
Infinite patience and personalisation, but also shortcuts and errors.
4 - A community store for workflows
Share and install routines in one click, with a permission preview.
4 - Safe actions: a permissions model for an assistant that clicks things
Scopes, previews and undo. How far should defaults go?
4 - Multi-agent orchestration: when does it beat one big prompt?
Parallel research, review loops and role separation worked for me.
14 - GDPR and voice assistants: what should a small business do?
Lawful basis, retention, and the right to delete.
4 - Proactive reminders: let XIRO nudge me before meetings
A gentle 'your call starts in ten minutes, want the notes?' would be perfect.
5 - Where is the next billion-dollar voice AI startup hiding?
My guess: a boring vertical with a painful phone problem.
4 - Open-weight licences: what can a business actually do?
Commercial use, attribution, restrictions. Read before you build.
5 - Why do big-tech assistants feel stuck?
Huge reach, but they feel the same as five years ago.
4 - Voice-driven Blender shortcuts for 3D artists
'Add a bevel' and 'frame selected' by voice while my hands stay on the tablet.
4 - Echo cancellation in software: AEC without a DSP
Speaker bleed ruins everything. Options?
5 - Urdu and English in one sentence: how well does dictation cope?
'Kal meeting hai at 3 pm, please remind me.' This is how we talk.
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