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Live Speech-to-Text on a Microcontroller ESP32-P4X Chip A $5 ESP32-P4 Chip Now Writes Down Everything You Say, Live and Offline, With About 4 Wrong Words in 100

Speech recognition on a microcontroller usually means a short list of fixed commands. Boumedine Billal has gone much further: his open-source project runs a full speech-to-text model live on an ESP32-P4, a chip that costs about $5. You talk into the board's microphone and any English sentence appears on its screen as you speak, with no Wi-Fi, no cloud and no neural accelerator. On the standard…