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Willow - Open Source Local Voice Assistant

cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/55351

This is a cool project for an ESP32-S3-Box which can give really good voice support to Homeassistant or Openhab. Once installed on supported hardware, you can host the Inference Server yourself, use their cloud based version, or perform local actions on the device.

communist ,
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How does this compare to mycroft?

cyberscribe OP ,

Unfortunately Mycroft has been discontinued by its management team and is heading towards deprecation. This project is starting up now and has a strong initial release that works well. Mycroft was intended to be used with a cloud backend hosted by the Mycroft team (that being said they did eventually open source their backend but it was not intended for use with single instances).

Willow is designed to work with very low power/cost hardware (esp32-s3-box) and either homeassistant or openHAB right out of the box.

communist ,
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Oh wow, I didn’t even hear it was discontinued, interesting.

Does it use a large language model? it says “Willow users can now self-host the Willow Inference Server for lightning-fast language inference tasks with Willow and other applications (even WebRTC) including STT, TTS, LLM, and more!”

but i’m not sure if that refers to using a large language model or if LLM refers to something else

cyberscribe OP ,

Yes - I have not tested it out yet but the author of this project suggests Llama derivatives like Vicuna. I am excited to see how this project evolves alongside Homeasisstant’s voice goals. The author of Rhasspy is working for Nabu Casa so im sure that will grow too!

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