Local Voice I/O

1. Plain-Language Definition

Speech-to-Text (STT) allows you to dictate your questions with your microphone, and Text-to-Speech (TTS) allows the AI to read its answers back to you audibly.

2. Why It Exists

Typing long, complex queries or reading massive walls of text can be tedious. Voice interfaces provide a more natural, conversational, and accessible flow.

3. What Breaks Without It

Relying on cloud-based voice APIs (like Google or Apple dictation) means your audio recordings are transmitted over the internet, breaking the local privacy boundary.

4. How StarkLLM Implements It

StarkLLM uses local embedded neural speech engines (local Whisper for STT and Piper ONNX neural voices for TTS) to transcribe your audio and synthesize speech entirely on your hardware, without sending audio files or speech data to any cloud API.

5. User-Visible Benefit

A fluid, hands-free conversational experience that maintains strict, strict local privacy.

6. Practical Example

While reviewing a physical document on your desk, you click the microphone icon and ask StarkLLM a question, then listen to the answer without ever touching your keyboard.