https://rfbatista.github.io/en/Recent content on rfbatistaHugo -- gohugo.ioenhttps://rfbatista.github.io/en/about/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://rfbatista.github.io/en/about/I’m Renan Donato, a software engineer in Brazil. I work on running language models in production, and there’s a question that won’t leave me alone: what has to be true for high-quality AI to run locally, in Portuguese, on hardware a Brazilian can actually afford? Everything I publish here comes out of that question. I benchmark Whisper, TTS and wake-word models in Brazilian Portuguese on Raspberry Pi and ESP32, I write about inference (quantization, voice latency, llama.