There are some excellent tools on the market for creating your own virtual assistant; most are intended for corporate customers with large budgets. But there are also freely available open source tools that enable developers with some background in software development to create their own virtual assistants. We examine, show demos and videos, and compare currently available open source tools including the JiboAlive Toolkit, Virtual Human Toolkit, Teneo Studio, CMU’s Jasper for Raspberry Pi, Speaktoit, and Pandorabot.