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willow

Open source, local, and self-hosted Amazon Echo/Google Home competitive Voice Assistant alternative

Category
Speech-to-text
Type
Open source
Platform
C project
Pricing
Free / open source
License
Apache-2.0
GitHub stars
3,092
Last updated
2026-08-04

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