Make: Volume 91

You’ll see the Vosk STT system boot up and then

the script will say “Listening…”

Now try asking the LLM to “turn the light on.”

Because the Pi is not optimized for LLMs, the

response could take 30–60 seconds, but with

some luck, you should see that the led_write

function was called (Figure

E

), and the LED has

turned on!

xLAM is an open-source LLM from SalesForce

(github.com/SalesforceAIResearch/xLAM).

They call it a LAM (large action model), as it is

optimized to understand requests and not just

provide text answers. The allenporter version

(ollama.com/allenporter/xlam) works with

Ollama tools, and its 1-billion-parameter model

can run on the ...