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At the @aiDotEngineer World's Fair in June, @_pion and I gave a talk about…

September 18, 2025

At the @aiDotEngineer World's Fair in June, @_pion and I gave a talk about networking fundamentals for voice AI, plus how to get started with voice AI on small hardware devices.

@chadbailey59 built a great little voice AI toy, named Squobert. Squobert helped us out during the talk.

If you're interested in building voice AI toys, consumer devices, or just hacking on voice-controlled hardware experiments, check out the video of the talk, and links to code ...

Squobert runs on a Raspberry Pi: https://t.co/Kk5YCiSBMr

An even smaller/cheaper embedded hardware platform, and one that's very widely used, is the ESP32 family of microcontrollers: https://t.co/ImPAPH6KrF

@_pion posted that he'll be in San Francisco at a hardware AI meetup on 11/1: https://t.co/17RrmumDzs

@_pion Here's the full talk[3]

  1. https://github.com/chadbailey59/squobert/
  2. https://github.com/pipecat-ai/pipecat-esp32
  3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E71YtNbCFXY