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Anyone putting local LLMs on user-facing apps? (e.g. iOS)

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Hey everyone, I have a consumer app that uses fully-local AI to help people practice speaking a language privately and securely. The full conversation cycle is local: STT - Apple on-device SpeechAnalyzer LLM - Gemma 4 E4B TTS - Supertronic 3 The number 1 feedback I get from the average user is "I'm…

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  1. 2026-09-01 20:53 · r/LocalLLM
    Anyone putting local LLMs on user-facing apps? (e.g. iOS)

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