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The privacy-first angle is compelling — keeping voice data local means you're not trusting a third party with everything said in your home or office.

What's your latency budget for the full voice-to-intent pipeline? The gap between "okay computer" and the agent actually responding is where most local voice systems feel sluggish compared to cloud alternatives. Even small local models tend to add seconds versus sub-second cloud responses.

Also — how are you handling multi-turn conversations? True voice interaction requires the agent to remember recent context without re-triggering on ambient speech, which is a harder problem than it might seem.