# Open-Source Voice AI runs entirely on ESP32-S3

> Source: <https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/10/12/open-source-voice-ai-runs-entirely-on-esp32-s3/>
> Published: 2026-10-12 18:44:04+00:00

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 […]