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27th March 2023 - Link Blog

LLaMA voice chat, with Whisper and Siri TTS. llama.cpp author Georgi Gerganov has stitched together the LLaMA language model, the Whisper voice to text model (with his whisper.cpp library) and the macOS “say” command to create an entirely offline AI agent that he can talk to with his voice and that can speak replies straight back to him.

Posted 27th March 2023 at 9:06 pm

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 27th March 2023.

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