Leon AI

by Leon AI community

Open-source personal assistant — self-hostable, privacy-respecting, modular skills.

TL;DR

Open-source personal assistant — self-hostable, privacy-respecting, modular skills.

Best for developers who want a code-extensible voice assistant they fully control. Pricing: free.

Category
Open source
License
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Stars
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Last push
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Pricing
free
Platforms
Linux, macOS, Windows, Docker

What it is

Leon is an Apache-2.0 personal assistant maintained by Louis Grenard. Modular skill packages, pluggable ASR (Coqui, Vosk, Whisper), pluggable TTS, and Node.js core.

Best for: Developers who want a code-extensible voice assistant they fully control.
Watch out for: Smaller community than Mycroft / OVOS; English / French / German only for speech; skills must be hand-written in Python/JS.

Install / use

getleon.ai — git clone + npm install

Features

Speaker diarizationNo
Word-level timestampsNo
Streaming / real-timeYes
Languages supported3
HIPAA eligibleNo

Leon AI vs Whipscribe

FeatureLeon AIWhipscribe
CategoryOpen sourceTranscription APIs
Pricingfreefree beta
Speaker diarization—Yes
Word timestamps—Yes
StreamingYesNo
Languages399
PlatformsLinux, macOS, Windows, DockerWeb, API, MCP

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