Willow
Open-source privacy-focused voice assistant hardware platform
Willow is an open-source ecosystem for building fast, private voice assistants on inexpensive hardware. It pairs ESP32-based devices with a self-hosted inference server for local speech recognition.
Key features
- Local voice recognition
- Low-cost ESP32 devices
- Home Assistant integration
- Fast response times
Strengths
- Released under the Apache-2.0 license
- First-class Docker support for quick deployment
- Active community (3.1k GitHub stars)
- Written in C
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