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Porting a 4-model local voice assistant to Intel NPU/iGPU — trying to move from AI engineer into inference engineering, would love a reality check

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I'm an AI engineer, 3 years in, currently doing the usual applied stuff — RAG, agents, API integration. I want to move into actual inference/serving engineering and I'd rather be told now if my plan is dumb. What I'm building: a fully local voice assistant (VAD → ASR → LLM → TTS) that has to run on…

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  1. 2026-09-08 09:32 · r/LocalLLM
    Porting a 4-model local voice assistant to Intel NPU/iGPU — trying to move from AI engineer into inference engineering, would love a reality check

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