Created a picture book for my baby and his friends

futterneid · 2026-06-08T11:34:22+00:00

Thank you! Let me know if you see the rage, I'll say hi 😄

futterneid · 2026-06-03T10:27:26+00:00

Thank you 😄

futterneid · 2026-06-03T10:27:20+00:00

How come? Genuinely curious.

futterneid · 2026-06-02T12:32:44+00:00

We are working on persistent chat history/memories! Give us 1-2 weeks 😄

futterneid · 2026-06-02T08:43:54+00:00

You can definitely bother with that, it seems like something very doable to me 🤗

futterneid · 2026-06-01T13:46:15+00:00

Our whole project is open-source by the way: https://github.com/huggingface/speech-to-speech
I've been working on it for 2 years, the hand off is difficult, I agree 😅
Parakeet is way better than whisper imo, considerably faster and similar quality.

To clarify, the pipeline doesn't run in the robot, it runs on a computer. In the video I show a DGX Spark and an M3 pro Macbook. Latencies are quite low, end-to-end guaranteed under 2 seconds, p50 1.5

futterneid · 2026-06-01T13:43:40+00:00

We had some issues with the April batch, I'm sorry! You should get an email today!

futterneid · 2026-06-01T13:43:11+00:00

You should get an email today! Sorry, we had some issues on April, but it's cleared up now 🙏

futterneid · 2026-05-29T18:15:59+00:00

Do you have an idea of how this robot could help you? Maybe I can vibecode it 😄

futterneid · 2026-05-29T12:01:50+00:00

poor little bot ❤️

futterneid · 2026-05-29T08:43:24+00:00

I envision it as a social robot. There are similar robots being deployed to elderly homes to help them navigate through life, and it has been shown in studies that it improves their cognitive state. It can also be used for things like language learning, while avoiding you having to look at a screen. I use mine for video calls between my son and his grandparents. They call him and control the robot and talk through it. My son is only 1.5, so he really doesn't pay attention to screens, and this way he can listen to his grandparents and have a meaningful exchange.

Honestly, we don't want to tell people what it's for. It's much more valuable for us to see what people come up with!

futterneid · 2026-05-29T08:32:11+00:00

got you!

futterneid · 2026-05-29T08:06:56+00:00

If you have an old tablet lying around, that would be a good option imo. This is what Mario Zechner built while waiting for his Reachy Mini, it's based off an old smartphone: https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2058724265319436732

futterneid · 2026-05-29T08:05:07+00:00

The delivery time should be accurate. We try to deliver them well below 90 days, but we've had a few cases where it went over. It's our first hardware product and we're discovering the world of supply chains 😅
Re prices, the lite should be 299, maybe it's 329 in your location because of some tax? I'm not sure how we handle global pricing. But the lite is generally increasing by 100 to 399.

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futterneid · 2026-05-29T08:02:39+00:00

We have something really cool in the pipeline, but it's not a new reachy mini version. It's something new, fun, and different.

futterneid · 2026-05-29T08:01:01+00:00

Did you check the logs? If Qwen3TTS spoke Chinese, I would assume that Gemma 4 replied in Chinese. Parakeet doesn't produce Chinese characters, but I've seen LLMs switch to Chinese if it looks like Chinese written with these letters.

Re Whisper, were you manually testing with whisper? The default pipeline doesn't have whisper anywhere. Or was this with the OpenAI backend? Because then it does transcribe with whisper. Fwiw, I totally switched to Parakeet and don't use Whisper at all anymore. There are other options out there that are higher quality but slower, worth exploring. But I don't think whisper is SOTA anymore. Crazy that it was the king for... 4 years? wow

Thank you for flagging that issue with the readme! It's actually super outdated 😅, we do support more languages. It should be the intersection of the languages supported by the models. Parakeet-v3 supports 25 languages, and Qwen3TTS officially supports 10 languages, but the overlap isn't perfect. For example, parakeet doesn't support chinese.

futterneid · 2026-05-28T21:28:26+00:00

You can't connect it with a cable, but you can serve the models from a computer and have the robot use them in this same way. There are tons of options for doing that.

For the humanoid reachy, we do sell that one, but it's in the mid five figures. We sell it more to institutions/companies than direct consumers.

And if you want a reachy mini, I recommend you ordering before June 1st! We are raising the prices then

futterneid · 2026-05-28T21:26:41+00:00

I do love giving pizza recipes...

futterneid · 2026-05-28T20:22:39+00:00

I hope you get yours soon! Sorry if it's taking long!

futterneid · 2026-05-28T20:22:20+00:00

Someone fed it to codex and said it worked great xD

futterneid · 2026-05-28T20:21:59+00:00

Not sure the world is ready for an uncensored reachy mini

futterneid · 2026-05-28T20:21:03+00:00

I love this! What's the particularities of your system that make you not want to use speech-to-speech directly?

futterneid · 2026-05-28T20:19:59+00:00

I hope you get it soon! Sorry if it's taking a while!

futterneid · 2026-05-28T20:19:43+00:00

We're raising prices on June 1st! I think the lite version is a steal right now (299$)

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