I turned my grandmother's voice messages into a family cookbook (open Vietnamese speech model + local LLM)
This is a submission for the Build for a Friend challenge: ship something with open-source AI that solves a real problem for someone you love. Grandma's Kitchen turns my grandmother's voice messages into a printed family cookbook. She talks, the way she always has. An open speech model fine-tuned for Vietnamese transcribes her recordings on my laptop. A small local LLM turns each rambling,…
This story is about a reporter's grandmother, whose voice messages have been turned into a family cookbook using open-source AI tools. The project, called Grandma's Kitchen, aims to preserve her culinary wisdom and make it accessible to the family. The reporter built a pipeline that transcribes her grandmother's recordings into a structured recipe format, complete with ingredients, steps, and her own tips.
The resulting PDF cookbook allows the family to cook her dishes, even though none of them are written down. The family is spread out, with some members in Hanoi, others in the south, and a few abroad. By using voice messages, everyone can continue to enjoy her cooking without her needing to learn new technology.
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