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1. Oct 21
   Developer releases Alkove, a 7.5 MB on-device voice front-end for local assistants

   A developer posted an early preview of Alkove, a voice front-end for local assistants made of five small on-device models totaling about 7.5 MB, with code and weights under Apache-2.0. Lex turns a typed word into likely pronunciations, Spot listens for them in seven languages, Timbre builds voiceprints, Focus keeps only the user's voice, and Cue detects speech every 30 ms. The models run on a custom Rust inference engine compiled to WebAssembly and natively for Python and Android, with packages for npm, pip, Android Kotlin, and plugins for LiveKit Agents and Pipecat. The author reports that on AMI headset-mic meetings, other speakers' words reaching the transcript fall from about 17 per minute to 0.5 with Focus and a voiceprint, and that Spot recalls 67% of typed English words at one false alarm per hour, 90% in French and 85% in Portuguese; these figures are self-reported and not independently verified.

   r/LocalLLaMA · 🔥 0
2. Oct 14
   AI is mass-decompiling games, raising preservation and IP concerns

   Indie game developer Popcar described a recent wave of AI-powered decompilation of existing games, enabling mashups between games and a boom in preservation projects that get old titles running on new hardware, often in browsers via WebAssembly. Simon Willison highlighted the piece's positives and negatives: old games can be ported, modified and enhanced, but anyone could decompile other software and use it freely, companies could take from competitors, and paid games or apps could be open-sourced against their owners' wishes. The topic also drew a Hacker News discussion.

   Simon Willison's Weblog · 🔥 0

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