Show HN: Real-time AI Voice Chat at ~500ms Latency

Real-Time AI Voice Chat 🎤💬🧠🔊 Have a natural, spoken conversation with an AI! This project lets you chat with a Large Language Model (LLM) using just your voice, receiving spoken responses in near real-time. Think of it as your own digital conversation partner. FastVoiceTalk_compressed_step3_h264.mp4 (early preview - first reasonably stable version) What's Under the Hood? A sophisticated client-server system built for low-latency interaction: 🎙️ Capture: Your voice is captured by your browser. ➡️ Stream: Audio chunks are whisked away via WebSockets to a Python backend. ✍️ Transcribe: RealtimeSTT rapidly converts your speech to text. 🤔 Think: The text is sent to an LLM (like Ollama or OpenAI) for processing. 🗣️ Synthesize: The AI's text response is turned back into speech using RealtimeTTS . ⬅️ Return: The generated audio is streamed back to your browser for playback. 🔄 Interrupt: Jump in anytime! The system handles interruptions gracefully. Key Features ✨ Fluid Conversation: Sp ... Read full article.