Adding RabbitMQ to My Homelab for Reliable KITT TTS Jobs
How I added RabbitMQ to my Proxmox homelab to queue reliable KITT and KARR text-to-speech jobs between my local AI server and Piper TTS.
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AI projects and experiments covering local AI, automation and practical AI-assisted systems developed inside Realm Labs.
Building a Voice-Activated KITT Smart Home Dashboard with Piper TTS, Home Assistant and Local AI
How I built a Knight Rider-inspired KITT smart home dashboard with Home Assistant controls, Piper TTS, wake-word voice interaction, a dedicated TTS server and a local Ollama AI fallback.
Training a Custom KARR Voice with Piper TTS, WSL and a GTX 1080 Ti
How I trained a custom KARR voice with Piper TTS, WSL and a GTX 1080 Ti, solved CUDA compatibility issues and exported it to ONNX.
Building KARR: A Local AI Assistant with Ollama, WebSockets, Memory and a Custom Web Interface
Most AI projects start with a chatbot. This one started with KARR. I wanted to build a local AI assistant inspired by the Knight Rider universe, but rather than creating another web page connected to a cloud API, I wanted…