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3rd Place Winner
Austin culture guide
A civics, culture, an real estate guide for new comers to Austin
YouTube Video
Project Description
An open-source smart hardware device configured to chat to people about Austin in voice. Perfect for new comers or anyone who wants to move to Austin. There are over 150 people moving to Austin everyday, and they all want to chat about the culture, life, weather in Austin! Utilizing a Texas accented voice on ElevenLabs, this device can chat about
- History
- Culture
- Local politics
- Housing
- Schools
- Neighborhoods
- Current weather
- Current events
It utilizes
- private / edge deployed LLMs or AI servers
- private knowledge base and search prompts
- ElevenLabs
- Groq
- Tavily (a custom MCP server with Austin specific prompts)
- Docker (for easy deployment)
- The EchoKit voice AI orchestration server
- Open source hardware voice device EchoKit (it also works on a web simulator)
For details, please see
https://github.com/juntao/austin-elevenlabs
Prior Work
Michael Yuan is one of the maintainers of the open-source EchoKit device project. This submission is built on the EchoKit tech stack.
Team
Products & Tools
Docker
EchoKit server
ElevenLabs
Groq
LlamaEdge
Open source hardware: EchoKit device
Tavily