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A talking ESP32-S3 desk assistant with an Irish voice

In six hours an ESP32-S3 board became a desk assistant: local speech-to-text on a Mac, Claude as the brain, and a spoken reply.

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  • Post author davidtkeane.com Source ↗

Earliest dated source: 17 Sept 2026

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Six hours after it arrived in the post, an ESP32-S3 board became a talking desk assistant. Speech is turned into text locally on a Mac, Claude works out the answer, and a reply comes back out of the speaker in an Irish voice. It runs on the owner's own server and API key, with no cloud account.

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From a passing comment or social post, so the details are thin.

  • Bluesky: Six hours ago this ESP32-S3 board was in a padded envelope. Now it's a talking AI on my desk: voice Social postbsky.app
    Post author: davidtkeane.comPosted 17 Sept 2026

    The maker's post, linking his write-up.

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