Building Local AI Voice Agents: vLLM + Kokoro + Livekit
ashishllm · x · 2026-07-30
A developer shared their window setup for building a local AI voice agent for clients, split into three panels using tmux:
- vLLM: Running the large language model inference.
- TTS: Using Kokoro for text-to-speech synthesis.
- LiveKit: Running speech-to-text (STT) with Parakeet.
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