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Open-Source Voice AI runs entirely on ESP32-S3

Anankush Pandit released Ivy AI, an open-source voice assistant that runs speech recognition, language model inference and speech synthesis entirely on an ESP32-S3 microcontroller, with firmware, model conversion tools, host-side tests and documentation published under GPL-3.0-or-later. WiFi is used only for time synchronization, so the voice pipeline operates without a network connection.

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Ananthu Ashok, writing for Open Source For You, covers Ivy AI, a voice assistant from Anankush Pandit that runs speech recognition, language model inference and speech synthesis on an ESP32-S3. Firmware, model conversion tools, host-side tests and documentation are published under GPL-3.0-or-later. WiFi is used only for time sync, so the voice pipeline works without […]

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