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Fast voice agents with ConvFill

Voice agents are either fast or smart. ConvFill proposes a way to bridge that gap by training a smol talker model (0.6B!) to talk with cheat notes from a large reasoner model. The way it works is this: after the user's speech is transcribed, the talker replies quickly to buy itself time while the r…

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  1. 2026-10-26 15:06 · r/LocalLLaMA
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