Fully local conversational AI runs on a plush toy using Whisper, Hermes 8B, Kokoro; no cloud, on LAN with face identity and emotion recognition
Read the original at www.reddit.com→A conversational AI plush toy where nothing leaves my network. Everything runs on my LAN: STT: Whisper LLM: Hermes 3 Llama 3.1 8B (Q8_0) TTS: Kokoro Memory: per-person (LangGraph). It knows who it's talking to and...
Original headline: "Fully local conversational AI: Whisper + Hermes 8B + Kokoro, zero cloud, running inside a plush toy"
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- Oct 10, 11:28 UTC r/LocalLLaMA lead source Fully local conversational AI: Whisper + Hermes 8B + Kokoro, zero cloud, running inside a plush toy