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An offline voice agent for my terminal in 52 MB (Whistle + Needle)

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Two of the biggest Hacker News threads this week were about Whistle, a 16.9 MB speech-to-text model, and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. I wanted to see what you can build with the first one, so I put a voice front end on my terminal, with the second as a fallback. Say "show me the last fifteen minutes of log…

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  1. 2026-10-10 12:29 · DEV Community — AI
    An offline voice agent for my terminal in 52 MB (Whistle + Needle)

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