Fully local conversational AI: Whisper + Hermes 8B + Kokoro, zero cloud, running inside a plush toy
A conversational AI plush toy where nothing leaves my network.
Proof1 community thread
Key points
- LLM: Hermes 3 Llama 3.1 8B (Q80)
- It knows who it's talking to and remembers past conversations
- Vision: face identity (dlib) + emotion recognition (FER+), so it knows who's talking and adapts to their mood
- The plush itself is a dumb terminal: Pi Zero WH with mic, camera, speaker and a head servo, streaming to a laptop over WebSocket, which connects to a local AI inference API.
Sources (1)
- [1]Fully local conversational AI: Whisper + Hermes 8B + Kokoro, zero cloud, running inside a plush toyr/LocalLLaMA (top, daily) · Oct 10, 11:28 AM
A conversational AI plush toy where nothing leaves my network.
- LLM: Hermes 3 Llama 3.1 8B (Q8_0)
Extractive summary: sentences quoted from the sources.
Before this
- Oct 9, 2026OpenPA: Forced-alignment-free Multi-granular Pronunciation Assessment with Mixed-transcript Adaptation
- Oct 9, 2026Speech event detector: Timestamped detection of non-verbal vocalizations and background sounds for rich speech transcription
- Oct 8, 2026langchain-ai/langchain langchain==1.4.4
- Oct 8, 2026langchain-ai/langchain langchain-openai==1.7.0
