Local voice agent stack on RTX 3060 gives veteran user his 'magic' AI moment
1or4s · reddit · 2026-11-05
A Reddit user following AI since GPT-3 shares his first agentic AI experience running a fully local stack — Strata, Hermes, Kitten TTS with Rosie voice, and Whisper — on an RTX 3060 with 48GB RAM. He says the first few hours talking to it and watching it work felt like magic. He asks r/LocalLLaMA for other lightweight TTS options besides Kitten v0.8 and what else he can run.
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