EchoKit – An open-source, ESP32-based AI voice agent with a Rust server

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Have you wanted a voice AI agent that you could fully control, customize, and understand from the ground up—not just a black box.EchoKit is a DIY, open-source voice agent running on an ESP32-S3. The fun part is the server backend, which I wrote entirely in Rust to handle the AI pipeline (ASR, LLM, TTS).The stack is:Hardware: EchoKit board (ESP32-S3)Firmware: ESP-IDFServer: Rust (Actix Web/Tungstenite)AI: Customizable pipeline. The tutorial uses Groq for the Whisper, Llama 3, and TTS models, which makes the response time incredibly fast (usually just a few seconds for the full ASR->LLM->TTS roundtrip).It's designed to be easy for makers, students, or anyone curious about AI to build in just a

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Website: www.instructables.com/Create-Your-Own-AI-Voice-Agent-Using-EchoKit-ESP32