A fully local home automation voice assistant using Qwen3 ASR, LLM and TTS on an RTX 5060 Ti with 16GB VRAM
This open-source project could make Siri and Alexa feel outdated overnight.
Deep Dive
A developer built a fully local home automation voice assistant called 'Fulloch' using Qwen3 models (ASR&TTS 1.7B, Qwen3 4B Instruct) running on consumer-grade RTX 5060 Ti hardware with 16GB VRAM. The system features a Morgan Freeman voice clone and integrates with Spotify, Philips Hue lights, climate control, and weather services. The project demonstrates viable local AI without cloud dependence, achieving quality responses that dropped dramatically with smaller sub-4B models.
Why It Matters
It proves high-quality, private smart assistants are now possible on affordable consumer hardware, reducing reliance on big tech clouds.