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 8, 2026langchain-ai/langchain langchain==1.4.4
- Oct 8, 2026langchain-ai/langchain langchain-openai==1.7.0
- Oct 7, 2026langchain-ai/langchain langchain-fireworks==1.7.1
- Oct 7, 2026langchain-ai/langchain langchain-huggingface==1.2.3
- Oct 7, 2026langchain-ai/langgraph cli==0.4.33: langgraph-cli==0.4.33
- Oct 7, 2026Itgan at NADI 2026 shared task: Parameter-Efficient Whisper Adaptation for Robust, Mixed-Dialect and Code-Switched Arabic ASR