The TrooperAI project was a test to see if I could build a low-latency, local (non-networked) voice assistant in Python for the Raspberry Pi. The system combines real-time speech recognition, ...

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Python developers often need to install and manage third-party libraries. The most reliable way to do this is with pip, Python’s official package manager. To avoid package conflicts and system errors, ...

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