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Have a natural, spoken conversation with AI!

8 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 1 story, 7 comments · first 2025-05-05 · latest 2026-03-06

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  1. …I've seen of the pipeline approach: ASR(STT) -> LLM -> TTS is still from about 10 months ago in HN https://github.com/KoljaB/RealtimeVoiceChat Just a pity the code is undecipherable :(
    comment by cpill · 2026-03-06 · in Nvidia PersonaPlex 7B on Apple Silicon: Full-Duplex Speech-to-Speech in Swift
  2. Yeah local works really fine. I tried this other tool: https://github.com/KoljaB/RealtimeVoiceChat which allows you to live chat with a (local) LLM. With local whisper and local LLM (8b llama in my case) it works phenomenally and it…
    comment by wolvoleo · 2026-02-17 · in Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue
  3. How does it compare with https://github.com/KoljaB/RealtimeVoiceChat , which is absent of the benchmark ?
    comment by allan_s · 2026-01-15 · in Show HN: Sparrow-1 – Audio-native model for human-level turn-taking without ASR
  4. …polarizes, I trained it for myself, so it's not an official release. You can change the voice here: https://github.com/KoljaB/RealtimeVoiceChat/blob/main/code/a... Create a subfolder in the app container: ./models/some_folder_name Copy the…
    comment by koljab · 2025-05-07 · in Show HN: Real-time AI Voice Chat at ~500ms Latency
  5. …In case it's not clear, I'm talking about the models referenced here. https://github.com/KoljaB/RealtimeVoiceChat/blob/main/code/a...
    comment by peterldowns · 2025-05-06 · in Show HN: Real-time AI Voice Chat at ~500ms Latency
  6. This is the system prompt https://github.com/KoljaB/RealtimeVoiceChat/blob/main/code/s... My favorite line: "You ARE this charming, witty, wise girlfriend. Don't explain how you're talking or thinking; just be that person."
    comment by PhunkyPhil · 2025-05-05 · in Show HN: Real-time AI Voice Chat at ~500ms Latency
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    Show HN: Real-time AI Voice Chat at ~500ms Latency
    story by koljab · 2025-05-05 · 227 comments
  8. …or any features you think are essential for a good local voice AI experience. The code is here: https://github.com/KoljaB/RealtimeVoiceChat
    comment by koljab · 2025-05-05 · in Show HN: Real-time AI Voice Chat at ~500ms Latency