A r/LocalLLaMA post introduces an offline voice loop for talking to local models through Ollama, LM Studio, or vLLM. The stack uses Silero VAD, Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 STT, and Supertonic TTS 3, all running on CPU so GPU memory stays available for the LLM. The author reports measured CPU-only benchmarks, agent integrations, cross-platform installers, and an MIT-licensed GitHub release.
Bookwire and ElevenLabs announced a publishing partnership to make ebook catalogs available as high-quality audio in the ElevenReader app. The titles will support more than a dozen languages, including English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Arabic, Polish, French, and German. The partnership targets the large gap between published books and audiobook availability, giving publishers a new digital revenue channel while expanding global access to audio books.
ElevenLabs published a blog post announcing that Eleven v3 is now generally available. Since the article body was not provided, the only confirmed detail is the availability milestone, not specific feature, pricing, API, language, or performance changes. Developers and creators using voice AI should review the official post before making adoption decisions.
This technical tutorial from Replicate was inspired by a viral project from developer Charlie Holtz. The project demonstrates how to use a computer's webcam to…