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Frankly. Keep My Data Private. Please.

A developer created Churo, a local, private, and powerful AI voice assistant that runs in the terminal. Churo features top-of-the-line text-to-speech and speech-to-text capabilities, and is currently available for Mac with Windows support planned for a future release.

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Even if I am probably younger than YOU, I use AI, I use assistants, I use the web; but still, I have always known that my data is there, in those Data Centres and frankly I can't stop it. I also can't stop using Gemini or ChatGPT!

All the Voice Assistants claiming local, private, safe... are they actually doing what they say? I was concerned...

That's why I decided to create my own AI voice assistant with one aim local, private, safe and powerful.

Churo has been sculpted particularly for privacy, safety and power. Churo is not only a Voice Assistant but a Copilot that sits in your terminal at all times.

Churo is equipped with the top-of-the-line Text-to-Speech and Speech-to-Text for providing you the experience of talking to a real person.

With the following features:

Either go to:

https://github.com/MathObsession/Churo-assistant OR

Run:

pip install churovoice

churovoice --voice male DISCLAIMER: THIS IS CURRENTLY MAC ONLY AND WINDOWS SUPPORT IS COMING IN V2.0.1

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