A real-time voice agent with zero US servers: Gladia STT, Gemma 4 on Scaleway, KugelAudio TTS
tobowers · x · 2026-09-24
Pushing back on "you have to use American AI to be frontier," developer tobowers built a real-time voice agent with no US companies or servers in the data path: Gladia for STT, Gemma 4 hosted on Scaleway, and KugelAudio for TTS. The result is fast and fully European-run.
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