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Under-$50 private Pi voice assistant

Whisper + a small LLM + Piper, all on a Pi.

By @Mr_Engineer_456

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Overview

A voice assistant that needs no internet: it hears you with Whisper, replies with a small LLM and talks back with Piper TTS, all locally on a Raspberry Pi for under $50.

How it works

Whisper STT -> small local LLM -> Piper TTS on a Pi.

Hardware

  • Raspberry Pi
  • mic
  • speaker

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