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$4 RP2040 voice storyteller
Speech recognition and a from-scratch LLM on a $4 chip.
By @azhar0406
- Est. cost
- $4
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Overview
Say three words and a 2.7M-parameter LLM trained from scratch writes a story about them, streamed to a tiny OLED. Everything runs on a $4 RP2040 board (Shrike-lite).
How it works
On-device speech recognition + tiny LLM on an RP2040.
Hardware
- Shrike-lite RP2040
- mic
- OLED
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