[HN Gopher] Building voice agents with Nvidia open models
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       Building voice agents with Nvidia open models
        
       Author : kwindla
       Score  : 62 points
       Date   : 2026-01-07 16:08 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | amelius wrote:
       | I've been using festival under Linux.
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       | https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/festival.1....
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       | But it is quite old now and pre-dates the DL/AI era.
       | 
       | Does anybody know of a good modern replacement that I can "apt
       | install"?
        
         | sigmonsays wrote:
         | I used piper with a model I found online. It's _ALOT_ better
         | than festival afaik. I'm not sure you can apt install it
         | though.
         | 
         | echo "hello" | piper --model ~/.local/share/piper/en_US-lessac-
         | medium.onnx --output_file - | aplay
        
           | gunalx wrote:
           | You can in fact apt install piper.
        
             | amelius wrote:
             | That's a different piper.                   piper - GTK
             | application to configure gaming devices
        
       | jjcm wrote:
       | These have gotten good enough to really make command-by-voice
       | interactions pleasant. I'd love to try this with Cursor - just
       | use it fully with voice.
        
       | nowittyusername wrote:
       | This is perfect for me. I just started working on the voice
       | related stuff for my agent framework and this will be of real
       | use. Thanks.
        
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