Home Assistant has introduced the ability to run fully local AI voice control using models like Llama 3 via Ollama, enabling offline command processing for smart homes. This approach keeps all voice ...

A Home Assistant user replaced generic text-to-speech voices with locally generated clones of family members using Qwen3-TTS, an open-source model requiring minimal audio to create realistic voices.

AI dictation apps have come a long way in a short time. For years they were slow and inaccurate — unless you spoke with a ...

MULTNOMAH COUNTY, Ore. — The Multnomah County Sheriff's Office is warning residents Thursday about a wave of fraudulent text messages impersonating law enforcement and threatening recipients with ...

GALLATIN, Tenn. (WKRN) — A Gallatin city leader wants the city to stop new construction. Councilman Pascal Jouvence, a vocal proponent for slowing Gallatin’s growth, is introducing this discussion ...

Kokoro 82M, a compact text-to-speech (TTS) model with just 82 million parameters, is proving that size isn’t everything in speech synthesis. Developed to run entirely on local hardware, this ...

Chautauqua County Executive Paul M. Wendel Jr. will deliver his 2026 State of the County Address on Tuesday, April 21, though not before the Chautauqua County Legislature as has been tradition for ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — New legislation proposed by New York State Senator Christopher Ryan could change how New York transitions to electric school buses. State Senator Ryan is backing two bills aimed at ...

INDIANAPOLIS — "It's really scary, and they make it look so real," said Chelsea Emshwiller, of Delaware County, who got a suspicious text message on Monday, April 6. The text claimed to be from Marion ...

Members of the Mission Accomplished team at their new office and health care hub under construction in Hemingford, Nebraska (left to right): Melissa Schoenemann, Ali Redden, Jenilee Woltman and Lee ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — Twenty students from Missoula County high schools Big Sky, Hellgate and Sentinel earned spots at the National Speech and Debate Association tournament June 14-19 in Richmond, ...

(KELO) — South Dakota law enforcement agencies are warning the public about a text messaging scam claiming to be from the Department of Motor Vehicles. People have been receiving texts claiming an ...