Muted demo loop from the projectCredit: Hugging Face × Pollen — Reachy Mini blog

Give Reachy Mini a real-time voice and personality

Humanoid, Easy

The official Reachy Mini Conversation App connects a realtime speech model to the robot so it listens, talks back, moves its head expressively, and can use tools.

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The app runs as a Reachy Mini Python app and wires speech-to-speech with head motion, emotions and dance moves, plus MCP-style tools. People on X are pairing it with ElevenLabs voices, local speech models and wake words.

Hardware & cost: A Reachy Mini (Lite or Wireless) and an API key for the speech model you choose.

Difficulty: Easy.

Agent install prompt (paste into Claude Code, Cursor or Codex): "Install https://github.com/pollen-robotics/reachy_mini_conversation_app on my Reachy Mini following the README, set my API key in the .env file, and start a conversation test."

Source: pollen-robotics/reachy_mini_conversation_app on GitHub — https://github.com/pollen-robotics/reachy_mini_conversation_app (facts checked against the project README, Oct 2026; prices vary by region).

Quick answers

What do you need to give Reachy Mini a real-time voice and personality?: A Reachy Mini (Lite or Wireless) and an API key for the speech model you choose.
How hard is it to give Reachy Mini a real-time voice and personality?: Easy.

How your agent drives it

Copied from the pollen-robotics/reachy_mini_conversation_app README

Shell
```
$ pip install -e .
```
Shell
```
$ reachy-mini-conversation-app
```

Shell

$ reachy-mini-conversation-app tool-spaces add <owner/space-name>

Any coding agent that can run a shell can run these. Read the README before you run anything on a robot that moves.

Ideas to try with it

Our ideas, not the builder's claims.

Ask for the weather and get the answer with head moves
Give it a custom personality profile for a kids' homework helper
Add your own MCP tool space so it can check your to-do list

1 more idea

Run it with --no-camera for a voice-only desk assistant

Source: pollen-robotics/reachy_mini_conversation_app on GitHub
Last commit: 2026-11-02
Builder: pollen-robotics
Repo: pollen-robotics/reachy_mini_conversation_app, 349 stars
Built with: Reachy Mini

Reachy Mini, 3 builds: Set up Reachy Mini as a talking desk companion · Give Reachy Mini a real-time voice and personality · Make Reachy Mini move with emotion in real time

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