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Willow
Self-hosted Echo/Google Home alternative.
By HeyWillow
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Overview
Open-source, local, self-hosted voice assistant that aims to compete with commercial smart speakers. Runs on the ESP32-S3-BOX and pairs with a self-hosted inference server.
How it works
ESP32-S3-BOX does wake word and VAD, then sends audio to a self-hosted inference server and on to Home Assistant or other backends.
Hardware
- ESP32-S3-BOX
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