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Show HN: I built a free CharacterAI that runs locally
CharacterAI has over 20M active users and lets people talk to AI voice clones. I built a local alternative that clones any voice with <10s of audio and can talk fluently in over 10 languages, and runs locally on your Macbook or Mac mini.<p>The voice pipeline currently supports MLX on any M1 through M5 chip. I used Whisper-Turbo for STT, Qwen3.5-9B-4bit for the LLM and Qwen3-TTS-0.6B-4bit for TTS.<p>The repo also has a Websocket Transport to add these voices to devices powered by the ESP32 via secure websockets.
The project demonstrates strong technical proficiency in optimizing state-of-the-art open-source models for local Apple Silicon, tapping into the massive 'AI companion' market with a privacy-first approach. However, it currently functions more as a developer tool or hobbyist project than a scalable business, lacking a clear monetization strategy, defensive moat, or significant market traction.