Want to build your own real-time voice assistant that listens, waits for you to pause, and even interrupts mid-reply? In this video, I’ll walk you through building a PC-based voice bot (ready for Raspberry Pi) using Vosk for fast offline speech recognition and a modular pipeline for pause detection + GPIO actions. You’ll learn: 🎤 How microphones capture and preprocess audio 🔍 How Vosk & Whisper differ for speech recognition ⏸ How to detect pauses naturally (like real conversation) ⚡ How to map commands to GPIO/text actions 🔄 How to extend with Whisper, GPT, or TTS in the future This is part of my experiment series, where we build AI assistants from scratch. Perfect for makers, hobbyists, and AI engineers! #ai #voiceassistants #raspberrypi #speechtotext #vosk #whisper #diyprojects #diy #offlineai #smartassistants #techdiy #thinklikethinkers