@zinyando.bsky.social - Lennex Zinyando

18 Aug 2026 15:32 +0000

Local first voice AI for speech, chat, and audio workflows. github.com/izwi-ai/izwi https://github.com/izwi-ai/izwi

02 Jul 2026 13:48 +0000

IBM’s Granite Speech 4.1 2B Plus is built for rich transcription: speaker labels, word timestamps, keyword biasing. Best way to test it locally: Izwi. `izwi pull Granite-Speech-4.1-2B-Plus` Local-first voice AI stack. OpenAI-style APIs. github.com/izwi-ai/izwi https://github.com/izwi-ai/izwi

30 Jun 2026 10:18 +0000

NVIDIA just dropped Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B, small, fast, multilingual ASR for real-time voice agents. Best way to kick the tires locally: Izwi AI. Run it local-first, test APIs, swap models, ship faster. github.com/izwi-ai/izwi https://github.com/izwi-ai/izwi

23 Jun 2026 17:39 +0000

Izwi is the voice of AI I've been heads down working on Izwi, making it more stable and faster, and adding more models. v0.1.0-beta-17 is out!!! github.com/izwi-ai/izwi/releases/tag/v0.1.0-beta-17 #LocalAI #ASR #OpenSource https://github.com/izwi-ai/izwi/releases/tag/v0.1.0-beta-17

13 May 2026 15:27 +0000

Building infrastructure without VC means consulting to survive. Every hour consulting is an hour not building. Funded competitors sprint ahead while you're stuck in the consult-build loop. Wouldn't have it any other way. Heads down, back to building Izwi AI.

08 May 2026 12:09 +0000

Every time I pitch Izwi, people think I've lost my mind. "How do you compete with billion dollar labs as a solo founder?" Simple: They are building for their cloud. I'm building for your local device. As Jack Altman says, there is massive alpha in being willing to look crazy.

29 Apr 2026 07:46 +0000

Built Izwi for macOS first Turns out 53% of downloads are Windows, 29% Linux, 18% macOS 🤯 Moral of the story: always ship cross-platform from day 1 Lesson learned: your assumptions ≠ your users' reality github.com/izwi-ai/izwi https://github.com/izwi-ai/izwi

20 Apr 2026 11:09 +0000

300+ GitHub stars for Izwi 1200+ Downloads 🚀 I strongly believe voice AI will be huge in the next few years. Izwi's goal is to be the default voice AI runtime for private deployments. github.com/izwi-ai/izwi

17 Apr 2026 13:54 +0000

Only 4 more needed to reach 300 GitHub stars. Tell a friend to tell a friend to try Izwi, the Voice AI Runtime. github.com/izwi-ai/izwi https://github.com/izwi-ai/izwi

15 Apr 2026 14:44 +0000

At least we are not buying GitHub stars at Izwi, we need a few more to reach 300. Go to GitHub and give us a ⭐️ github.com/izwi-ai/izwi

14 Apr 2026 16:56 +0000

Being a solo founder in the age of AI is weird, you can do more than ever, but the real bottleneck is still judgment. AI gives you leverage. It doesn't give you conviction. Building Izwi has made that painfully clear. github.com/izwi-ai/izwi https://github.com/izwi-ai/izwi

13 Apr 2026 11:21 +0000

1/ Every day I get questions about what Izwi is and what business we are in. Short answer: We're building the private audio runtime for production voice AI. Let me explain what that actually means 🧵

10 Apr 2026 17:46 +0000

How do you build features people want when nobody opts into telemetry? Open source founders know the trap: ship, celebrate, nada. Just vibes and prayer. Izwi launched with optional telemetry. <1% opted in. Now we're flying blind. Startup problems. github.com/izwi-ai/izwi https://github.com/izwi-ai/izwi

09 Apr 2026 18:28 +0000

Fireworks AI shutting down their audio APIs is a reality check. Given 30 days' notice, you realize the brutal truth: You’re not building a product. You’re renting one. Portable audio inference. Run it anywhere, cloud or on the edge. Own your stack. github.com/izwi-ai/izwi https://github.com/izwi-ai/izwi

06 Apr 2026 17:13 +0000

I think OpenClaw and Hermes Agent are incredible, 350K+ and 28K+ stars are incredible. But they've been stuck in text. Enter Izwi: on-device voice AI that runs locally. Your agents, now with ears and a mouth. 🦞🗣️ github.com/izwi-ai/izwi https://github.com/izwi-ai/izwi

05 Apr 2026 15:13 +0000

ElevenLabs biggest flaw: you're locked into their cloud. Their servers. You pay per character. You need API keys. I built Izwi AI. Open-source voice AI that runs 100% on your machine. No API keys. No cloud. No subscription. 276 ⭐ on GitHub. github.com/izwi-ai/izwi https://github.com/izwi-ai/izwi

04 Apr 2026 19:14 +0000

🚀 Just shipped v0.1.0-beta-11, the biggest UI update in this beta cycle. Redesigned UI + new features that make Izwi feel like a real product. Hot take: "Open source ElevenLabs" Try it and tell me I'm wrong: https://github.com/izwi-ai/izwi/releases/tag/v0.1.0-beta-11 ⭐ If you believe in open source voice AI

30 Mar 2026 11:27 +0000

ChatGPT is now the #1 traffic source for the Izwi website. 400 sessions this month. More than Google. More than Twitter. The AI search era is here. github.com/izwi-ai/izwi

28 Mar 2026 16:48 +0000

ElevenLabs recently wrote about open-source TTS for conversational AI. Soon, Izwi will be THE way to run open source ASR, TTS & Chat models. GitHub: github.com/izwi-ai/izwi https://github.com/izwi-ai/izwi

26 Mar 2026 17:05 +0000

Question I keep asking myself: Are we building infrastructure or building a product? Izwi is the Ollama of Audio AI or the open source ElevenLabs? Still figuring out which lane to pick. Hot take: this is exactly when a cofounder earns their keep github.com/izwi-ai/izwi https://github.com/izwi-ai/izwi

25 Mar 2026 15:13 +0000

Izwi just shipped Studio, a workspace for long-form TTS projects. Paste text, split into segments, queue renders, export audio. It's beta and rough in places, but it works. Try it and tell us what's broken. https://github.com/izwi-ai/izwi/releases

24 Mar 2026 09:25 +0000

The product decisions I didn't expect: they're all local first problems. Speed depends on hardware. Bigger models are smarter, but don't run on weaker machines. Features behave differently across models. Making it all feel cohesive is the job. github.com/izwi-ai/izwi https://github.com/izwi-ai/izwi

23 Mar 2026 15:32 +0000

Day 1: "You need a co-founder." Day 60: still solo, 220 GitHub stars, shipping voice AI that runs on your machine Turns out the math changed. Building in public. Izwi. Follow along. github.com/izwi-ai/izwi https://github.com/izwi-ai/izwi

21 Mar 2026 13:23 +0000

AI makes building easy. Knowing what to build? Still, the hard part. This Saturday: UI polish (I'm not a designer, it shows) + competitor intel. AI helps you build. It does not help you decide. Anyway. Back to working on IzwiAI. github.com/izwi-ai/izwi https://github.com/izwi-ai/izwi

20 Mar 2026 17:50 +0000

I asked Grok to tell me about myself, and it said: "You're the guy quietly (but very deliberately) building infrastructure so voice AI can actually work offline, cheaply, and, hopefully, soon in languages and contexts that big cloud providers still ignore." IzwiAI 🚀🔥

19 Mar 2026 15:45 +0000

200+ stars on GitHub for Izwi. This project started because I wanted to try Qwen-TTS/Qwen-ASR and couldn't find an easy way. So I built it myself. Started by accident. Feels like the right move. github.com/izwi-ai/izwi

18 Mar 2026 14:54 +0000

I accidentally built a local AI inference engine. Never intended to. Just wanted to test some models. Now it has transcription, TTS, voice cloning—all running locally. Writing custom Metal kernels to make it faster. github.com/izwi-ai/izwi https://github.com/izwi-ai/izwi

17 Mar 2026 10:51 +0000

"We have vendor assessments." → "Our AI never touches the cloud." "We have DPIA underway" → "GDPR-compliant by design." The difference between a 3-month sales cycle and a 12-month compliance review. https://izwiai.com/blog/gdpr-by-default-how-on-device-ai-solves-the-compliance-nightmare-for-european-startups

16 Mar 2026 18:47 +0000

Your M&A strategy lives in vendor logs. Your SEC investigation discussion sits on someone else's servers. That's not a risk. It's a certainty. On-device transcription keeps your boardroom in the room. https://izwiai.com/blog/ai-in-the-boardroom-why-corporations-are-banning-chatgpt

14 Mar 2026 17:30 +0000

Just kicked off a Codex task... This means it's time to reread "Do Things That Don't Scale" by Paul Graham Being a solo founder building IzwiAI means multitasking and working weekends, too. www.paulgraham.com/ds.html https://www.paulgraham.com/ds.html