{"slug": "diy-ai-voice-assistant-with-esp32-and-animated-oled-eyes", "title": "DIY AI voice assistant with ESP32 and animated OLED eyes", "summary": "Jayesh Nawani built a DIY voice assistant that runs entirely on an ESP32, using an I2S microphone to capture speech that is packaged as a WAV file and sent to the OpenAI Whisper API for transcription, with GPT generating a reply and TTS audio streaming back through a MAX98357A amplifier. Open Electronics published coverage of the project, which also includes animated OLED eyes.", "body_md": "oeadmin at Open Electronics covers a voice assistant project by jayesh_nawani that runs entirely on an ESP32. An I2S microphone picks up speech, the clip is packaged as a WAV file and sent to the OpenAI Whisper API for transcription. GPT writes a reply and the TTS audio streams back out through a MAX98357A amplifier […]", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/diy-ai-voice-assistant-with-esp32-and-animated-oled-eyes", "canonical_source": "https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/09/30/diy-ai-voice-assistant-with-esp32-and-animated-oled-eyes/", "published_at": "2026-09-30 20:37:33+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-30 20:49:45.460265+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products", "ai-tools", "artificial-intelligence", "generative-ai"], "entities": ["ESP32", "Jayesh Nawani", "Open Electronics", "OpenAI Whisper API", "GPT", "MAX98357A"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/diy-ai-voice-assistant-with-esp32-and-animated-oled-eyes", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/diy-ai-voice-assistant-with-esp32-and-animated-oled-eyes.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/diy-ai-voice-assistant-with-esp32-and-animated-oled-eyes.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/diy-ai-voice-assistant-with-esp32-and-animated-oled-eyes.jsonld"}}