Good lord.

The "Alexa" knockoff has no voice recognition!

Based on this title style I built a google and gmail knockoff - using index cards, ink and paper and postage stamps. It doesn't spy on me - but also doesn't work at all like google or gmail!

Better title:

I built an LCD display that displays information?

Yeah, I was expecting to see a blog post about raspberry pi speech recognition. I was hoping it wasn't just another "look, Ma, I did speech recognition! (By sending everything to )" but I was prepared to be disappointed on that front because such posts are endemic these days. Turns out, it didn't engage with speech recognition at all, which was even more jarring.

Speaking of rpi offline speech recognition, is Jasper still the go-to? If you're willing to spring for one of the shiny new nvidia SBCs, is there an open source option that can take advantage of their power (with lower effort than "glue everything together manually with tensorflow")?

Jasper is very old and not very accurate. For offline recognition on RPi try something like Vosk https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api