# DIY AI voice assistant with ESP32 and animated OLED eyes

> Source: <https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/09/30/diy-ai-voice-assistant-with-esp32-and-animated-oled-eyes/>
> Published: 2026-09-30 20:37:33+00:00

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 […]