Ask HomeWord is an experimental AI marriage & parenting coach designed to explore how 40+ years of trusted ministry wisdom can serve families at any hour—with strict source grounding, zero hallucinated quotes, and warm pastoral care.
We benchmarked all 32 pre-populated Marriage & Parenting starter questions across Gemini 3.8 Flash, Gemini 4 Carbon, Gemini 4 Argon, ChatGPT-6 Astra, ChatGPT-6.1 Sol, Claude Opus 5.5, and OpenRouter Free on a 100-point rubric weighted 60% toward corpus accuracy and minimal false information.
Unifies 43 written HomeWord works—9 books, 13 When Your Adult Child Strays course guides, 17 talk scripts, and 4 articles—with all 512 @homewordfamily YouTube episodes (143.8 hours) GPU-transcribed via faster-whisper large-v3-turbo into timestamped 3-minute scenes.
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A single Rust binary combining SQLite FTS5 BM25 lexical search with in-process BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5 dense vector embeddings. Topic × Life-Stage Reciprocal Rank Fusion retrieves exact book chapters and video clips in ~17 ms and strips any unverified [book:...] or [vid:...] citation at runtime.
Synthesizes spoken answers in Dr. Jim Burns’s AI voice using a reference-conditioned Chatterbox TTS engine (float16 + CUDA Graph kept warm at ~5.5× real-time, Perth-watermarked), overlapping sentence generation while text streams for rapid playback.
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Any AI assistant (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, custom ministry agents) can query HomeWord’s library directly via https://askhomeword.com/mcp (documented at /llms.txt) with no API key—returning structured answers, verified source links, and optional spoken audio.
Every book title mentioned in an Ask HomeWord answer automatically links to its publisher edition so parents and couples can go deeper: