Building an offline talking Halloween prop: Stack and challenges
breksyt · reddit · 2026-08-21
A maker shares their experience building a fully offline conversational Halloween prop (“Frustrated Box”). The stack involves a Raspberry Pi with a ReSpeaker mic array (Silero VAD + pipecat) and a Linux GPU server running faster-whisper, Kokoro TTS, and Llama3.1. The author seeks advice on handling multiple voices (considering alternatives to Silero VAD) and finding TTS models with better contextual prosody and natural speech delivery than Kokoro.
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