AI-Buzzby Nick

Build 001 · House AI

Can I build a local voice assistant that is actually good enough to use every day?

I’m building House AI on an existing Windows PC, with a spare Galaxy intended as the push-to-talk client. The basic loop works. Build 001 will test whether the complete experience is fast, accurate, natural, and reliable enough to keep using.

Its first grounded feature answers questions from a private household manual. Those answers show where the information came from. Missing or conflicting facts stay unknown.

See the current build

Current evidence

The Windows loop works. The phone and daily-use results are still open.

Windows voice loop
Working on Windows
Household lookup rules
Covered by automated tests
Galaxy voice path
Not tested on the intended phone
Logging and retention audit
Incomplete
End-to-end timing
Not measured
Ordinary home use
Not started
Current milestone
Build the repeatable quality test for local voice turns.

Interface preview

A fictional example, not a recorded interaction.

The intended phone interface makes the two answer paths visible: a general local model and source-backed household information. A real demonstration will wait for a sanitized Galaxy turn with matching audio, transcript, response, and timing data.

House AI Private connection

Fictional interface example

YouWhich filter fits the hall return?
House AIThe example return takes a 16 by 25 by 1 filter.House manual · Example label inside the return grille · Checked Aug 16, 2026
Interface preview
Interface preview with fictional data. This is not a recorded voice demo.

Why the build is worth following

Connecting the parts is only the beginning.

House AI is being judged on the complete voice interaction, not on whether speech recognition, a model, and speech output can be connected. Household answers need a source, missing information must remain unknown, and actual use will decide whether the project is kept, changed, or stopped.

Latest update

The build record starts with verified work.

Turn instrumentation is in place

The browser and Windows gateway can now join a content-free turn record from recording through playback, with optional local JSONL output. No real baseline or Galaxy timing has been collected. Next, I’ll build and run the repeatable Windows quality test.

Read this update in the build log

How AI-Buzz works

A working demo is not the result.

I compare each project with the way I already handle the problem, use it under normal conditions, and track mistakes, delays, troubleshooting, and maintenance. Stopping is a useful result when the simpler option works better.

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