Survey on Local vs Self-hosted LLMs and Privacy (Academic Research)

I see the confusion! You’re right—technically, these are separate services (Whisper for ears, Piper for voice, etc.). When I said it was ‘autonomous’ earlier, I meant the integration is so seamless on my local hardware that the end-user experience feels like a single agent. I’m not just calling an API; I’ve wired these ‘services’ directly into the model’s workflow so it can switch between ‘seeing’ and ‘speaking’ without me having to manually trigger each part.