acatovic/ova
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Outrageous Voice Assistant - Fully local end-to-end ASR + LLM + TTS pipeline using open weight models and a simple web based UI
7 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 1 story, 6 comments · first 2026-01-15 · latest 2026-08-21
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Having built my own voice assistant ( https://github.com/acatovic/ova ) and having tried many other services and models, I feel the real win is when this is on-device, and by "on-device" I mean being very inexpensive to run on a phone, and…
comment by armcat · 2026-08-21 · in How we made a text-to-speech model respond in sub-50 ms -
…pipeline can still feel real-time with sub-second RTT. For example, see my project https://github.com/acatovic/ova and also a few others here on HN (e.g. https://www.ntik.me/posts/voice-agent and https://github.com/Frikallo/parakeet.cpp ).…
comment by armcat · 2026-03-05 · in Nvidia PersonaPlex 7B on Apple Silicon: Full-Duplex Speech-to-Speech in Swift -
…I built my own pipeline fully local and it was sub second RTT, with no streaming nor optimisations https://github.com/acatovic/ova
comment by armcat · 2026-03-02 · in Show HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch -
…done guys, I’m gonna try it as my ASR component on the local voice assistant I’ve been building https://github.com/acatovic/ova . The tiny streaming latencies you show look insane
comment by armcat · 2026-02-24 · in Show HN: Moonshine Open-Weights STT models – higher accuracy than WhisperLargev3 -
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Show HN: Local Voice Assistantstory by armcat · 2026-02-17 · 0 comments
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…and I agree, you can make it super fast (I did something myself as a 2-hour hobby project: https://github.com/acatovic/ova ). I've been following full-duplex models as well and so far couldn't get even PersonaPlex to run properly (without…
comment by armcat · 2026-01-28 · in Show HN: LemonSlice – Upgrade your voice agents to real-time video -
…and event setup my own fully-local voice assistant [1]. Will definitely give Pocket TTS a go! [1] https://github.com/acatovic/ova
comment by armcat · 2026-01-15 · in Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice