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pi-assistant

Offline tool-calling voice assistant on a Pi 5.

By alexander-fischer (GitHub repository owner)

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Overview

Wake-word voice assistant that runs fully offline on a Raspberry Pi 5 and calls tools for weather, Wikipedia and smart home, using separate small models for function calling and answers.

How it works

openWakeWord -> Parakeet/Canary ASR -> Arch-Function 1.5B tool calls -> Gemma3 1B answers -> Piper TTS.

Hardware

  • Raspberry Pi 5 16GB
  • Jabra Speak 410

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