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Izwi 0.1.0 is stable. Open-source voice AI that runs entirely on your computer. Talk to it in real time, clone and design voices, narrate audiobooks, and transcribe meetings speaker by speaker. Give it a ⭐️ github.com/izwi-ai/izwi Download: izwiai.com

Local first voice AI for speech, chat, and audio workflows. github.com/izwi-ai/izwi

IBM’s Granite Speech 4.1 2B Plus is built for rich transcription: speaker labels, word timestamps, keyword biasing. Best way to test it locally: Izwi. `izwi pull Granite-Speech-4.1-2B-Plus` Local-first voice AI stack. OpenAI-style APIs. github.com/izwi-ai/izwi

NVIDIA just dropped Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B, small, fast, multilingual ASR for real-time voice agents. Best way to kick the tires locally: Izwi AI. Run it local-first, test APIs, swap models, ship faster. github.com/izwi-ai/izwi

Izwi is the voice of AI I've been heads down working on Izwi, making it more stable and faster, and adding more models. v0.1.0-beta-17 is out!!! github.com/izwi-ai/izwi/releases/tag/v0.1.0-beta-17 #LocalAI #ASR #OpenSource

Every time I pitch Izwi, people think I've lost my mind. "How do you compete with billion dollar labs as a solo founder?" Simple: They are building for their cloud. I'm building for your local device. As Jack Altman says, there is massive alpha in being willing to look crazy.

Built Izwi for macOS first Turns out 53% of downloads are Windows, 29% Linux, 18% macOS 🤯 Moral of the story: always ship cross-platform from day 1 Lesson learned: your assumptions ≠ your users' reality github.com/izwi-ai/izwi

300+ GitHub stars for Izwi 1200+ Downloads 🚀 I strongly believe voice AI will be huge in the next few years. Izwi's goal is to be the default voice AI runtime for private deployments. github.com/izwi-ai/izwi

Only 4 more needed to reach 300 GitHub stars. Tell a friend to tell a friend to try Izwi, the Voice AI Runtime. github.com/izwi-ai/izwi

At least we are not buying GitHub stars at Izwi, we need a few more to reach 300. Go to GitHub and give us a ⭐️ github.com/izwi-ai/izwi

Being a solo founder in the age of AI is weird, you can do more than ever, but the real bottleneck is still judgment. AI gives you leverage. It doesn't give you conviction. Building Izwi has made that painfully clear. github.com/izwi-ai/izwi

How do you build features people want when nobody opts into telemetry? Open source founders know the trap: ship, celebrate, nada. Just vibes and prayer. Izwi launched with optional telemetry. <1% opted in. Now we're flying blind. Startup problems. github.com/izwi-ai/izwi

Fireworks AI shutting down their audio APIs is a reality check. Given 30 days' notice, you realize the brutal truth: You’re not building a product. You’re renting one. Portable audio inference. Run it anywhere, cloud or on the edge. Own your stack. github.com/izwi-ai/izwi

I think OpenClaw and Hermes Agent are incredible, 350K+ and 28K+ stars are incredible. But they've been stuck in text. Enter Izwi: on-device voice AI that runs locally. Your agents, now with ears and a mouth. 🦞🗣️ github.com/izwi-ai/izwi

ElevenLabs biggest flaw: you're locked into their cloud. Their servers. You pay per character. You need API keys. I built Izwi AI. Open-source voice AI that runs 100% on your machine. No API keys. No cloud. No subscription. 276 ⭐ on GitHub. github.com/izwi-ai/izwi

🚀 Just shipped v0.1.0-beta-11, the biggest UI update in this beta cycle. Redesigned UI + new features that make Izwi feel like a real product. Hot take: "Open source ElevenLabs" Try it and tell me I'm wrong: github.com/izwi-ai/izwi... ⭐ If you believe in open source voice AI

ChatGPT is now the #1 traffic source for the Izwi website. 400 sessions this month. More than Google. More than Twitter. The AI search era is here. github.com/izwi-ai/izwi

ElevenLabs recently wrote about open-source TTS for conversational AI. Soon, Izwi will be THE way to run open source ASR, TTS & Chat models. GitHub: github.com/izwi-ai/izwi

Question I keep asking myself: Are we building infrastructure or building a product? Izwi is the Ollama of Audio AI or the open source ElevenLabs? Still figuring out which lane to pick. Hot take: this is exactly when a cofounder earns their keep github.com/izwi-ai/izwi

Izwi just shipped Studio, a workspace for long-form TTS projects. Paste text, split into segments, queue renders, export audio. It's beta and rough in places, but it works. Try it and tell us what's broken. github.com/izwi-ai/izwi...

The product decisions I didn't expect: they're all local first problems. Speed depends on hardware. Bigger models are smarter, but don't run on weaker machines. Features behave differently across models. Making it all feel cohesive is the job. github.com/izwi-ai/izwi

Day 1: "You need a co-founder." Day 60: still solo, 220 GitHub stars, shipping voice AI that runs on your machine Turns out the math changed. Building in public. Izwi. Follow along. github.com/izwi-ai/izwi

AI makes building easy. Knowing what to build? Still, the hard part. This Saturday: UI polish (I'm not a designer, it shows) + competitor intel. AI helps you build. It does not help you decide. Anyway. Back to working on IzwiAI. github.com/izwi-ai/izwi

I asked Grok to tell me about myself, and it said: "You're the guy quietly (but very deliberately) building infrastructure so voice AI can actually work offline, cheaply, and, hopefully, soon in languages and contexts that big cloud providers still ignore." IzwiAI 🚀🔥

200+ stars on GitHub for Izwi. This project started because I wanted to try Qwen-TTS/Qwen-ASR and couldn't find an easy way. So I built it myself. Started by accident. Feels like the right move. github.com/izwi-ai/izwi

I accidentally built a local AI inference engine. Never intended to. Just wanted to test some models. Now it has transcription, TTS, voice cloning—all running locally. Writing custom Metal kernels to make it faster. github.com/izwi-ai/izwi

"We have vendor assessments." → "Our AI never touches the cloud." "We have DPIA underway" → "GDPR-compliant by design." The difference between a 3-month sales cycle and a 12-month compliance review. izwiai.com/blog/gdpr-by...

Your M&A strategy lives in vendor logs. Your SEC investigation discussion sits on someone else's servers. That's not a risk. It's a certainty. On-device transcription keeps your boardroom in the room. izwiai.com/blog/ai-in-t...

Just kicked off a Codex task... This means it's time to reread "Do Things That Don't Scale" by Paul Graham Being a solo founder building IzwiAI means multitasking and working weekends, too. www.paulgraham.com/ds.html

Most transcription tools give you text. Speaker diarization tells you who said what — and when it matters most (attorney-client calls, medical conversations, financial advisory). The problem? Cloud solutions create compliance nightmares. izwiai.com/blog/speaker...

I built a tool to test Qwen3-TTS and Qwen3-ASR when they were released. Then people started actually using it. Now it's turning into a real product for enterprise workflows. Still early. Still beta. But it's working. Watch it grow: github.com/agentem-ai/i...

2.6 billion people are offline. Cloud AI latency: 200–800ms. Local-first: 5–50ms. Your "AI-powered" app breaks the moment someone walks into a building with bad signal. Local-first AI isn't a niche. It's the future. Blog post → izwiai.com/blog/why-you...

We kept hearing "that sounds hard" when we told people about local AI. Running audio without the cloud. No API calls. No data leaving your machine. Here's why 2026 is finally the year it works: izwiai.com/blog/the-4-p...

When I started building @IzwiAI, people thought I was crazy. Today, your phone runs models that needed a server farm 3 years ago. 9B beating 120B. Complete voice AI on $400 hardware. The future isn't in the cloud — it's in your pocket. izwiai.com/blog/on-devi... #OnDeviceAI #AI

Insurance AI = data risk. GLBA compliance. Claims calls. Underwriting interviews. On-device: transcribed locally, no cloud, no third parties. Simple math. Blog post - izwiai.com/blog/on-devi... #OnDeviceAI #InsurTech #GLBA

Sending customer data to the cloud? That's a compliance nightmare in Financial services. On-device AI changes that: • Real-time, no cloud latency • Call center transcriptions, no third-party access • Customer communications, no external servers izwiai.com/blog/on-devi...

Legal AI has a privilege problem A federal judge just ruled: using cloud AI can WAIVE attorney-client privilege. Uploading client info to third-party AI tools? That may not be protected. Blog post - izwiai.com/blog/on-devi... #LegalAI #OnDeviceAI #AttorneyClientPrivilege

🩺 Healthcare AI + privacy = headache Cloud AI = patient data leaves your control. HIPAA compliance gets messy. On-device AI? Data never leaves the device. Privacy and productivity aren't mutually exclusive. izwiai.com/blog/on-devi... #HealthcareAI #OnDeviceAI #HIPAA

Your customer calls are being processed by someone else's AI. That's a privacy risk. Local AI = your data, your hardware, your rules. The enterprise AI shift is happening. izwiai.com

Izwi v0.1.0-beta is here! 🚀 Kokoro TTS, streaming audio, WebSocket voice support, and a complete UI overhaul - all running locally on your device. No cloud. No API costs. Just fast, private voice AI. Blog Post: izwiai.com/blog/izwi-v0... github.com/agentem-ai/i...

It’s been 2 weeks since I released the alpha of Izwi (efficient inference for edge devices), and the numbers are wild: ⭐ 136 GitHub Stars 📥 308 Downloads 👥 327 Unique Cloners Not bad for a "little" project. 🛠️ github.com/agentem-ai/i...

I just published a short guide on how to give OpenClaw agents a fully local voice using Izwi. ✅ Local speech-to-text ✅ Local text-to-speech ✅ Works offline ✅ No API limits ✅ Full data control Read more: izwiai.com/blog/give-op...