Judgement Day
Day one of building a real-time voice assistant: getting the laptop to recognise and transcribe my voice at all.
Ben Rees - 15 December 2024
I've started a new project to try and write some Python code so that I can talk to the laptop in real time as I'm working. The ultimate goal is to create a real time assistant who is making suggestions for me in conversations.
Today was day one. Despite many many false starts I finally managed to get the laptop to recognise my voice and start transcribing it. Let Judgement Day begin.
Next step, world domination.
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