D'ESTAING

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My voice assistant. She runs across two Raspberry Pis and my desktop. Pick a stage of her pipeline to see what it does and what it runs on.

Response pipeline
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In the house
Bedside Raspberry Pi touchscreen showing the Iris clock face
bedside pi · clock face
Iris desktop control dashboard with pipeline stages, GPU telemetry and subsystem status
desktop dash · pipeline, telemetry, subsystems
What she does
BriefBuilds the morning brief for the bedside screen and pings my phone when it's ready.
TimersTimers and reminders. If she's off when one comes due, it fires when she's back, marked late.
ListsShopping lists, notes and small files in her own workspace.
PrinterProgress, temperature and ETA on request; pings at 5%, 50% and done.
RendersWatches the nightly Seastead render chain and reports start, finish and errors.
ModesGAME and WORK, switched by hand. In GAME she stays quiet unless asked.
Where she runs
Loft PiWake word, microphone, voice out through a pair of old desktop speakers.
Bedside Pi7" touchscreen dashboard and the morning brief.
DesktopSpeech to text, the local models, memory and the router.
NetworkPrivate tailnet; alerts go out through self-hosted ntfy.
RuleNothing leaves the house without my typed OK.
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