Building a local ChatGPT on iOS with free Apple Foundation Models and Kokoro TTS
amos_gyamfi · x · 2026-09-04
A developer demoed a fully on-device ChatGPT-style app on iOS using free models, no cloud APIs:
- Text generation: Foundation Models + Apple Intelligence
- Voice writing: SpeechAnalyzer and SpeechTranscriber models
- Voice mode: Kokoro Text-to-Speech (82M)
The stack shows how Apple's on-device AI models can be combined with open-source speech models into a working local assistant.
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