Boubou: one-command local voice AI that serves your phone and robots over Wi-Fi
LuozhuZhang · reddit · 2026-11-11
Boubou (MIT, beta) aims to make local voice AI as easy as Ollama made local LLMs. npx boubou@beta run LFM3-Audio-2B gets STT + LLM + TTS running fully offline with no API key or telemetry.
- Interruptions mid-sentence and built-in echo cancellation, so no headphones needed; on Mac, bare boubou detects your machine and suggests a model.
- Default is Liquid AI's LFM3-Audio-2B (1.4GB) on llama.cpp; a modular pipeline (Parakeet/Whisper → Qwen3.5 → Qwen3-TTS/Kokoro/Pocket TTS/Supertonic) lets you swap components.
- boubou serve lets phones connect by scanning a QR code, and robots/programs connect via an OpenAI Realtime-compatible WebSocket plus an OpenAI-style /v1/audio/speech endpoint — one machine voices many devices.
- Limitations: one device at a time, no Windows yet (two weeks), Mac-only guided menu; runs on Apple Silicon and Linux (NVIDIA GPU for the modular pipeline). Demo video is real-time on an M5 MacBook.
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