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Local voice assistant Athena released on GitHub with Qwen3.5 and Whisper

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A new open-source voice assistant named Athena has been released on GitHub, designed to run entirely locally on consumer hardware. This privacy-focused assistant utilizes a combination of a large language model (Qwen3.5-397B), speech recognition (Whisper-small.en), and text-to-speech capabilities to offer features like emotional responsiveness, long-term memory, and interruptibility. The project aims to provide a fully offline experience without relying on cloud services or telemetry. AI

IMPACT Provides a fully offline, privacy-focused voice assistant that can run on consumer hardware.

RANK_REASON Release of an open-source project on GitHub.

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Local voice assistant Athena released on GitHub with Qwen3.5 and Whisper

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  1. r/LocalLLaMA TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/Responsible_Fig_1271 ·

    As promised, here is the GitHub link for my 100% local voice-to-voice assistant

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I've posted up earlier versions of this project before, promising a GitHub link, but never got around to pushing the code from my local system. Sorry all, I have a very busy life :P</p> <p>Anyway, without further ado:</p> <p>GitHub: <a href="http…

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