What STT and TTS models do you recommend that would run well on consumer hardware?

I use Kokoro 82M and it's good overall, but it does make mistakes on some common phrases, and it's not real time fast (runs at about 6-7X content-to-encoding time ratio on my home server)

There seem to be some knowledgeable commenters here. How does a noob (asking for a friend) figure out what tires to buy? What should my friend be looking for?

That's....not true.

Maybe a few pros have been playing for 20+ years, but most of the top players (by championship wins) are young.

Hera, Lierrey, Vinchester, Lewis...are in their 20s. And even the previous #1 Viper isn't that old.

The parent is exaggerating, but ACCM is 36 and top 8, DauT is 40 and is something like top 16, Nicov is 34 and top 8.

Viper was one of the top players even back then

I'm also in my 30s. You could've played this game at 12 and still been playing it without turning 40