Strawberry: entirely local voice assistant using Gemma4

Discover optimizations and hacks for building an entirely local voice assistant using Gemma, Whisper, and Kokoro TTS, focusing on latency improvements and a novel producer-consumer architecture.

Whisper LiteRT-LM Gemma 4 E4B Kokoro TTS FAISS

Overview

Strawberry is my personal entirely-local voice assistant that transcribes with Whisper, thinks with Gemma via LiteRT-LM, speaks with Kokoro TTS.

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