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24 alternatives to Scheduling Async Voice Messages on RPi Made Easy with NatOS

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NatOS is a tool for scheduling asynchronous voice messages on Raspberry Pi devices. It simplifies the process of setting up timed audio playback on RPi hardware, making it accessible for users who want to automate… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. Scheduling Async Voice Messages on RPi Made Easy with NatOS launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Async▲633

    Replace "quick” work calls with supercharged voice messages

    2023 · async.com · its alternatives →

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    Kitten TTS is an open-source series of tiny and expressive text-to-speech models for on-device applications. We are excited to launch a preview of our smallest model, which is less than 25 MB. This model has 15M parameters. This release supports English text-to-speech applications in eight voices: four male and four female. The model is quantized to int8 + fp16, and it uses onnx for runtime. The model is designed to run literally anywhere eg. raspberry pi, low-end smartphones, wearables, browsers etc. No GPU required! We're releasing this to give early users a sense of the latency and voices…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Minutesfree tier, from $6/mo▲398

    Make your meetings async with voice and video

    2023 · minutes.so · its alternatives →

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    Pi-card is an AI powered voice assistant running locally on a Raspberry Pi. It is capable of doing anything a standard LLM (like ChatGPT) can do in a conversational setting. In addition, if there is a camera equipped, you can also ask Pi-card to take a photo, describe what it sees, and then ask questions about that. It uses distributed models so latency is something I'm working on, but I am curious on where this could go, if anywhere. Very much a WIP. Feedback welcome :-)

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Luke from ElevenLabs here. We just released Scribe Realtime v2, our new real-time Speech to Text model. We rebuilt it from the ground up around a new architecture that uses predictive transcription – it anticipates the next likely word before it’s spoken. That makes it both fast (around 150 ms latency) and highly accurate. Scribe v2 Realtime outperforms every low latency transcription model across 30 commonly used EU and Asian languages – 93.5% accuracy, compared to Gemini 2.5 Flash (91.4%), GPT-4o MiniTranscribe (90.7%), and Deepgram Nova 3 (85%). It supports 90+ languages including…

    2025 · elevenlabs.io · its alternatives →

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    I've been obsessed for the past ~year with the possibilities of talking to LLMs. I built a bunch of one-off prototypes, shared code on X, started a Meetup group in SF, and co-hosted a big hackathon. It turns out that there are a few low-level problems that everybody building conversational/real-time AI needs to solve on the way to building/shipping something that works well: low-latency media transport, echo cancellation, voice activity detection, phrase endpointing, pipelining data between models/services, handling voice interruptions, swapping out different…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Have a natural, spoken conversation with AI! Contribute to KoljaB/RealtimeVoiceChat development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    The first AI-powered voice assistant with privacy

    2017 · snips.ai · its alternatives →

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    Async-first messaging app with goals, deadlines and upvotes.

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Werk▲364

    Async first, all in one collaboration for remote teams

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    Tighter instruction adherence in speech agents

    Feb 2026 · developers.openai.com · its alternatives →

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    Contribute to rogeralsing/Microphone development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    :speech_balloon: An On-Premises, Streaming Speech Recognition System - GitHub - iceychris/LibreASR: :speech_balloon: An On-Premises, Streaming Speech Recognition System

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Sun▲110

    Sun is a realtime voice API built specifically for real‑time collaborative voice interaction, not just one‑on‑one chat. Completing with ChatGPT Realtime and Gemini Live API

    Jun 2026 · getsun.io · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN folks ! I am the author of AVA, a self hosted AI Voice Agent that plugs into Asterisk/Freepbx so you own all the aspects of an AI Voice agent in your own infrastructure. It uses Asterisk native Audiosocket/RTP with python engine to run STT,LLM and TTS loop. The project support several full providers openai, gemini, grok, elevenlabs out of the box and also provides options to build custom pipelines by choosing different stt tts and llm. It also supports full local agent if you have a GPU with 25GB RAM which enables realtime conversation along with tool calling. I started this…

    Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Welcome to Project S.A.T.U.R.D.A.Y. This is a project that allows anyone to easily build their own self-hosted J.A.R.V.I.S-like voice assistant. In my mind vocal computing is the future of human-computer interaction and by open sourcing this code I hope to expedite us on that path. I have had a blast working on this so far and I'm excited to continue to build with it. It uses whisper.cpp [1], Coqui TTS [2] and OpenAI [3] to do speech-to-text, text-to-text and text-to-speech inference all 100% locally (except for text-to-text). In the future I plan to swap out OpenAI for llama.cpp [4]. It is…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A hackday project. Run the program, speak into your microphone and hear the response from your speakers. - rob-mccann/Pi-Voice

    2013 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! Last year the project I launched here got a lot of good feedback on creating speech to speech AI on the ESP32. Recently I revamped the whole stack, iterated on that feedback and made our project fully open-source—all of the client, hardware, firmware code. This Github repo turns an ESP32-S3 into a realtime AI speech companion using the OpenAI Realtime API, Arduino WebSockets, Deno Edge Functions, and a full-stack web interface. You can talk to your own custom AI character, and it responds instantly. I couldn't find a resource that helped set up a reliable, secure websocket (WSS) AI…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Rasa Core▲140

    Machine learning-based dialogue engine for smarter bots

    2017 · rasa.com · its alternatives →

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    Real-time text-to-speech model you can self-host

    May 2026 · kugelaudio.com · its alternatives →

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    Scheduling app with pre-qualification and call automation

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    A fast, open-source voice assistant powered by Groq, Cartesia, and Vercel.

    2024 · swift-ai.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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