The ESP-BOX is a new generation AIoT development platform released by Espressif Systems. The ESP32-S3-BOX is an AIoT development board that is based on Espressif’s ESP32-S3 Wi-Fi + Bluetooth 5 (LE) SoC. The ESP32-S3-BOX provides a platform for developing the control of home appliances using Voice Assistance + touch screen controller, sensor, infrared controller, and intelligent Wi-Fi gateway.

The Lite version is a little different than the non-Lite:

• Does not include the dock that serves as a stand for your device.
• Comes with 3 mechanical buttons instead of software buttons
• Does not support AEC or waking during speak/music playback

Full differences are documented here.​​​ If you want the original S3-Box, check out this version.

The ESP32-S3-BOX Lite comes with pre-built firmware that supports offline voice interaction, with the SDKs and examples provided by Espressif, you will be able to develop a wide variety of AIoT applications based on the ESP32-S3-BOX Lite such as online and offline voice assistants, voice-enabled devices, HMI touch-screen devices, control panels, multi-protocol gateways easily.

ESP-BOX Lite features:

• Supports far-field voice interaction with 2 mics
• Offline voice wake-up with high wake-up rate
• Offline speech commands recognition in Chinese and English languages with high recognition rate
• Reconfigurable voice commands in Chinese and English languages
• Flexible and reusable GUI framework
• End-to-end IoT development framework ESP-RainMaker
• Pmod™ compatible headers support expand peripheral modules

• For getting started with ESP32-S3-BOX, Please refer to the Getting Started
• For voice control and customization, please refer to the Voice Assistance Control and Customization
• For controlling the device by graphical user interface, please refer to the GUI Guide
• For more details of ESP32-S3-BOX hardware, Please refer to ESP32-S3-BOX hardware overview
• For the latest version firmware, Please refer to the ESP32-S3-BOX firmware update

Important Note: We recommend updating the ESP32-S3-BOX firmware when you first receive the kit to have the latest features and bugfix. Software support is through ESP-IDF. CircuitPython also supports this board.