Why Your Python Voice Assistant Should Use Whisper + Claude (Not SpeechRecognition)

Dev.to AI
Generative AI

If you Google "ai voice assistant python" today, the top results still teach SpeechRecognition + pyttsx3 + Google's free STT endpoint. That stack is from 2020. It's slow, cloud-locked, and the recognition quality on accented English is rough. This is Part 3 of the BFO_ships AI agents series.