Gemma 4 12B QAT + faster Qwen 3 TTS fits perfectly fine in 12GB VRAM and can be used to create a fully local voice assistant with ... reconizeable traits ;)

The project is fully open source and published here: https://git.sync.wtf/starfleet

I see Youtubers trying to do similar things every now and then but for some reason their latencies always seem a lot higher than I would expect so if the one I've conjured up (based on Huggingface's Speech-to-Speech project initially) is special somehow then maybe it's of interest to others.

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[–] [S] 2 points 7 hours ago

I assume you meant your and not the computer's, and I agree - would also like to sound like him sometimes! :D

For those interested in the voice cloning part of the project though, it's done "live" at server startup through two config options:

  --qwen3_tts_ref_audio ./computer.wav
  --qwen3_tts_ref_text "Darmak is the name of a seventh dynasty emperor on condon four A myth of a historical hunter on Chantil three A colony on Melindi seven" 

Selecting the voice of the computer thus only needs a clear .wav of them speaking and a transcription.

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