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A live voice assistant on your own machine: Whisper, Pocket TTS and your local LLM

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A live voice assistant works like this: you talk, it answers out loud, you cut in, it stops. Since 3.0.6, Locally Uncensored has a mode that works that way with a model on your own machine. Speech recognition, the voice and the turn taking all run locally, and the model that answers is whatever cha…

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  1. 2026-10-20 15:13 · DEV Community — AI
    A live voice assistant on your own machine: Whisper, Pocket TTS and your local LLM

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