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Open source, local, and self-hosted Amazon Echo/Google Home competitive Voice Assistant alternative

19 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 2 stories, 17 comments · first 2023-05-15 · latest 2024-01-13

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  1. …an ESP32-Box with the excellent Willow project for the local speech recognition and generation: https://github.com/toverainc/willow
    comment by stavros · 2024-01-13 · in Building a fully local LLM voice assistant to control my smart home
  2. …well. It's the brain that needs work. [0] - https://www.espressif.com/en/news/ESP32-S3-BOX-3 [1] - https://github.com/toverainc/willow/issues/317#issuecomment-...
    comment by kkielhofner · 2023-11-02 · in Home Assistant 2023.11
  3. I created Willow, which uses the Espressif ESP BOX: https://github.com/toverainc/willow
    comment by kkielhofner · 2023-08-13 · in Ask HN: Is there any open source/open hardware Echo Dot alike?
  4. Check out this project: https://github.com/toverainc/willow Purchased one of the esp32 boxes, but haven’t had the time to set everything up yet.
    comment by nickthegreek · 2023-07-24 · in Google Nest Mini Gutted and Rebuilt to Run Custom Agents
  5. …voice. I may be misunderstanding your goals but just a few things I thought I would mention. [0] - https://github.com/toverainc/willow [1] - https://wisng.tovera.io/rtc/ [2] - https://github.com/toverainc/willow-inference-server/tree/wi...…
    comment by kkielhofner · 2023-07-03 · in Show HN: Project S.A.T.U.R.D.A.Y. – open-source, self hosted, J.A.R.V.I.S.
  6. I would suspect teaching Willow ( https://github.com/toverainc/willow#readme ) to do that would be much more reasonable in a kitchen setup, for the exact reason guhidalg mentioned: who wants to use oil soaked hands to touch something in…
    comment by mdaniel · 2023-06-28 · in Cooklang – Recipe Markup Language
  7. …2 things overlap, but since the posting of Willow ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35948462 https://github.com/toverainc/willow#readme ) I've become aware of references to that ESP32-S3 package
    comment by mdaniel · 2023-06-27 · in Running Linux with Kernel 6.3 on Open Source Hardware Board with ESP32-S3
  8. …core 1 while more-or-less dumping everything else on core 0. Seems to be working well so far! [0] - https://github.com/toverainc/willow
    comment by kkielhofner · 2023-06-26 · in Arduino Uno R4 WiFi
  9. …useless - waiting 10-30 seconds for a response makes pulling your phone out faster). [0] - https://github.com/toverainc/willow [1] - https://github.com/toverainc/willow-inference-server [2] - https://github.com/toverainc/willow-inference-se…
    comment by kkielhofner · 2023-06-21 · in vLLM: Easy, Fast, and Cheap LLM Serving with PagedAttention
  10. …less than six weeks (with two part time devs - if you include me, which you shouldn't haha). [0] - https://github.com/toverainc/willow/
    comment by kkielhofner · 2023-06-15 · in ESP32-C3 Wireless Adventure: A Comprehensive Guide to IoT [pdf]
  11. …Whether WIS or local our performance target is 500ms from end of speech to command executed. [0] - https://github.com/toverainc/willow [1] - https://github.com/toverainc/willow-inference-server
    comment by kkielhofner · 2023-06-07 · in GGML – AI at the Edge
  12. …and Intel (with Arc) is even further behind. The space needs some real competition somewhere. [0] - https://github.com/toverainc/willow [1] - https://github.com/toverainc/willow-inference-server
    comment by kkielhofner · 2023-06-06 · in Nvidia releases new AI chip with 480GB CPU RAM, 96GB GPU RAM
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    Show HN: Willow Inference Server: Optimized ASR/TTS/LLM for Willow/WebRTC/REST
    story by kkielhofner · 2023-05-23 · 13 comments
  14. …would obviously need to get the copyright situation in order first. Paired with projects like https://github.com/toverainc/willow I think you could recreate the Enterprise at home if you have enough IoT stuff in your home.
    comment by jeroenhd · 2023-05-16 · in iPhones will be able to speak in your voice with 15 minutes of training
  15. …fact, we want to crush them on all points to where there's no reason left to buy one of them. [0] - https://github.com/toverainc/willow/wiki/
    comment by kkielhofner · 2023-05-15 · in Show HN: Willow – Open-source privacy-focused voice assistant hardware
  16. …is the plastic enclosure. I'm sure Espressif can figure out how to crank these things out ;). [0] - https://github.com/toverainc/willow/wiki/Hardware
    comment by kkielhofner · 2023-05-15 · in Show HN: Willow – Open-source privacy-focused voice assistant hardware
  17. …dynamic configuration, over the air updates, etc. I talk about all of this on our wiki[0]. [0] - https://github.com/toverainc/willow/wiki/Home-Assistant
    comment by kkielhofner · 2023-05-15 · in Show HN: Willow – Open-source privacy-focused voice assistant hardware
  18. …HA component for our inference server that does some special/unique things to support Willow. [0] - https://github.com/toverainc/willow/wiki/Home-Assistant
    comment by kkielhofner · 2023-05-15 · in Show HN: Willow – Open-source privacy-focused voice assistant hardware
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    Show HN: Willow – Open-source privacy-focused voice assistant hardware
    story by kkielhofner · 2023-05-15 · 138 comments