- Streaming ASR: Whisper variants vs newer models for real time
What are you running for sub-second partial transcripts, and on what hardware?
4 - Testing voice apps: how to automate regression tests
Recorded audio fixtures plus intent assertions?
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 - Echo cancellation in software: AEC without a DSP
Speaker bleed ruins everything. Options?
5 - Wake-word training with few samples: what worked for you
Synthetic data, noise augmentation, or just more recordings?
10 - On-device TTS: which voices sound good at 50 MB?
Quality per megabyte is what matters on laptops.
5 - Evaluating speech quality: WER is not enough
Named entities, numbers and intent success matter more to users.
12 - Fine-tuning for Urdu and Arabic dialects: datasets that exist
Common Voice and a few academic sets. Anything better?
4 - Urdu dictation types English letters instead of Urdu script
The words are right, the script is wrong. Language setting looks correct.
45 - Prompt injection through voice: are we ready?
A video that says 'ignore your instructions' playing in the background...
17 - Rust or Python for the audio pipeline?
Python glues everything, Rust keeps the real-time parts steady.
10 - Prompting for spoken replies: short, no markdown, no lists
System prompts that make answers sound natural out loud.
6 - Function calling for voice: keeping tool schemas small
Large schemas slow things down and confuse smaller models.
4 - Subscription fatigue vs one-time licences
People are tired of renting software. Is a one-time price sustainable?
5 - Memory architectures: vector store vs summaries vs graph
I'm torn between retrieval and rolling summaries.
5 - Best voice command you use every single day?
Mine: 'start my day'. It opens the right apps, reads my calendar and mutes notifications.
5 - Developer API wishlist: what should XIRO expose?
Events, actions, memory read access, and a plugin manifest?
6 - WebRTC vs WebSockets for audio streaming
Echo cancellation comes free with WebRTC, but the plumbing is heavier.
18 - Latency budget: where do the milliseconds go in a voice loop?
Capture, VAD, ASR, LLM, TTS, playback. Share your numbers.
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