Fully local AI plush toy: Whisper + Hermes 8B + Kokoro, zero cloud, MIT-licensed
msalsas · reddit · 2026-10-10
Developer msalsas open-sourced "The Philosopher," a conversational AI plush toy that runs 100% on his LAN with no cloud or API keys.
- Stack: Whisper for STT, Hermes 3 Llama 3.1 8B (Q80) for the LLM, Kokoro for TTS.
- Per-person memory via LangGraph — it knows who it's talking to and recalls past conversations.
- Vision: face identity via dlib plus emotion recognition via FER+, letting it adapt to the speaker's mood.
- The plush is a dumb terminal: a Pi Zero WH with mic, camera, speaker, and head servo streams over WebSocket to a laptop running local inference.
- MIT-licensed repo plus a full write-up on Hackster.io.
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