DIY Handheld AI Chatbot runs on a Raspberry Pi 2 Zero, and costs around $120 to make
DIY Handheld AI Chatbot runs on a Raspberry Pi 2 Zero, and costs around $120 to make

DIY Handheld AI Chatbot runs on a Raspberry Pi 2 Zero, and costs around $120 to make - Yanko Design

Have the hardware requirements of Whisper dropped significantly over the last few months? I played around with it in context of home assustant year of the voice. Despite using a (4 year old) ThinkPad with 32 GB of RAM and a 4 core (8 threads) i7 the accuracy and performance of Whisper was still not at a point that I'd use for productive use.
A rather simple sentence like 'turn the light in the living room on' worked maybe in 70% of the cases if I sat right next to the microphone and without any background noise. With music playing in the background or other people talking in parallel it dropped to ~25% accuracy.
If it now runs just fine on a Raspberry Pi Zero that would be a massive improvement!