Open-source AI companion Amika ships: 900ms voice response, fully local, smart-home integration
jamesbrooksco · x · 2026-11-10
MekaHime open-sourced Amika after 11 months of development — a free, fully local AI companion (OpenAmika).
- 900ms voice response latency; EN/JA/ZH support with a claimed wide emotional range
- Memory via BM25 + vector retrieval (bge-m3)
- Connects to personal agents (Hermes, nanoMuse, OpenClaw) and smart-home IoT devices
- Local requirements: Windows 10/11, 16GB RAM, 45GB disk; a 'semi-local' API mode costs a few dollars a month and reportedly works better
- License: MIT harness code, but art, voice, Live2D model and weights stay proprietary; no commercial use beyond limited fan merch (up to $1,000) and credited social-media monetization
Commenters are asking for fast API inference as an alternative to running it locally.
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