Summary
An open-source framework has been released, enabling users to build a sub-$10 AI toy that runs entirely locally on an Apple Silicon Mac with an ESP32 device. This toy facilitates real-time, private conversations, supporting features like voice cloning and multilingual interactions across 10 languages, without sending any data to the cloud. It leverages local models such as Whisper, MLX VLMs, Qwen3-TTS, and Chatterbox-Turbo for its functionality.
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