Open-Source Local Realtime Voice Stack: Ollama Chains Qwen for STT and TTS
InternationalGap3698 · reddit · 2026-08-09
A developer demonstrated a fully local realtime voice tech stack running via Ollama. The pipeline uses Parakeet for Speech-to-Text (STT), Qwen 2.5 7B as the conversational LLM brain, and Qwen3-TTS for Text-to-Speech generation.
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