Sobriété Numérique and the Frugal Tutor: Environmental Justice, Accessibility, and the Cognitive Floor of Edge-Deployed Language Tutoring
BMO is an offline, voice-to-voice French tutoring agent designed to run entirely on consumer CPU hardware, built to test how far AI language tutoring can move away from centralized cloud APIs toward local, sovereign computation. This paper asks a specific empirical question: how small can a language model be shrunk bef...