# OpenHome

> OpenHome is a San Francisco startup building an open-source operating system for voice AI - a Voice SDK, a hardware DevKit, and an AI Twin app that lets anyone clone their voice and personality in under a minute. Instead of another walled-garden assistant, it hands developers the wakeword-to-speech pipeline, lets them plug in any large language model, and ships it on real hardware that runs locally. More than 10,000 developers are already building talking speakers, toys, and appliances on top of it.

- **Founded:** 2023
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Shannon Wu (Founder & CEO), Jesse Leimgruber (Co-founder & CTO)
- **Team size:** ~11 employees
- **Products:** Voice SDK, DevKit, AI Twin (iOS), Abilities & Marketplace, $50,000 Developer Grant Program
- **Notable:** Grew to 10,000+ developers building on the platform, Launched the AI Twin app on iOS with sub-60-second voice-and-personality cloning, Secured ElevenLabs as featured voice partner for a Japan developer program (2026)

## Products & services

- **Voice SDK** — Open-source software development kit that handles the full voice pipeline - wakeword detection, speech-to-text, LLM routing, text-to-speech, and hardware I/O - with support for any large language model and 500+ built-in features. A working agent can be assembled in about five minutes.
- **DevKit** — Linux-based hardware kit (Raspberry Pi, microphone, speaker) for deploying OpenHome agents on real devices, with custom voices, 30+ languages, and smart home integration.
- **AI Twin (iOS)** — Consumer app that clones a user's voice and personality in under 60 seconds from a few questions and natural speech, then lets them converse with a digital version of themselves by voice or text. Users can delete their Twin and data at any time.
- **Abilities & Marketplace** — Modular, open-source plugins ('Abilities') triggered by spoken phrases that call APIs, play audio, or control devices; shared and discovered on a Marketplace, with bounties paying $250+ per ability.
- **$50,000 Developer Grant Program** — Grant program offering up to $50,000 in funding, up to $15,000 in AWS credits, dev-kit credit, and Discord support for compelling voice AI applications such as talking speakers, toys, and appliances; applications reviewed on a rolling basis.

## Achievements

- Grew to 10,000+ developers building on the platform
- Launched the AI Twin app on iOS with sub-60-second voice-and-personality cloning
- Secured ElevenLabs as featured voice partner for a Japan developer program (2026)
- Stood up a $50,000 developer grant program with up to $15,000 in AWS credits
- Shipped an open-source Abilities marketplace with paid bounties

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — Launched a Japan developer program with ElevenLabs Japan G.K. as featured voice partner.
- **2026-01** — Partnered with Novi to give its 10,000+ developers AI-driven venture-building tools.
- **2026-01** — Opened the $50,000 Developer Grant Program with up to $15,000 in AWS credits.
- **2025-10** — Launched the AI Twin app on iOS with sub-60-second voice and personality cloning.

## Links

- Website: https://openhome.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/openhome-ai
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/openhome
- GitHub: https://github.com/openhome-dev

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Last updated: 2026-08-20