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I managed to run a realistic talking avatar locally in realtime (90+ FPS on RTX4090)

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I am working on an open-source project called Openspline, it adds a live, talking face to any voice AI agent in five lines of code Just upload a still image, select a voice and you can create a talking avatar with lipsynced video generated locally. It is still in very early stage, but the results l…

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  1. 2026-10-19 21:49 · r/LocalLLM
    I managed to run a realistic talking avatar locally in realtime (90+ FPS on RTX4090)

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