Open-source JARVIS desk bot: a fully local ESP32 voice agent with Hermes, ASR and TTS on-device
Teknium · x · 2026-10-09
A developer open-sourced jarvis-desk-bot, plumbing the Hermes agent into an ESP32 desk robot with xiaozhi-server (Parakeet ASR + Kokoro TTS, fully local). Features include progress narration, voice-controlled Google Tasks, background helper agents that report back, and spoken confirmation before risky commands. MIT licensed.
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