Thank you for your help with the sizing.
I figured out what the text to speech issue was. It seems that my GPU didn't have enough VRAM for both models to run simultaneously. So, I found a 4B parameter LLM and now the speech to text works!
Edit: It doesn't seem to be so shrimple... I can't tell which microphone it is actually using. The default, I would assume, but changing to another microphone that is kind of far away seems to work just the same as one right up to my face.