Posted 2/3/2024, 3:37:48 AM
Building a DIY Voice Assistant with Raspberry Pi to Rival Commercial Products
- Making “à la Rabbit prototype” with Python, Push-to-Talk, Local, and Cloud LLMs
- Components include microphone, PTT button, ASR, small local language model, public API (OpenAI or LLaMA)
- Inspired by YouTube reviews of Rabbit R1 portable “AI assistant” & analysis of how it could be built
- Implementing similar ideas using Python code on Raspberry Pi hardware
- Seeing how it works in practice & what challenges need to be solved