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For a local voice agent, would you keep the models loaded all day?

Thinking about a voice assistant that gets used a few times an hour, rather than a constant stream of calls. Keeping STT, the LLM and TTS ready makes sense for the first reply. It also ties up the machine while nobody's talking to it. For people running these locally, do you unload any part between…

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  1. 2026-10-01 07:32 · r/LocalLLM
    For a local voice agent, would you keep the models loaded all day?

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