Building a Fully Local Voice-Controlled AI Agent on an 8GB M1 Mac (Without Melting It)

Hey everyone! 👋 Recently, I took on a challenging assignment for an AI/ML Developer Internship at Mem0. The goal was to build a local, voice-controlled AI agent that could transcribe audio, understand user intent, and execute local tools (like creating files or writing code) based on that intent. The catch? It had to run locally, and my daily driver is an Apple M1 MacBook Air with only 8GB of RAM. Running a Speech-to-Text (STT) model and a Large Language Model (LLM) simultaneously on 8GB of...