Shaunwei/RealChar
🎙️🤖Create, Customize and Talk to your AI Character/Companion in Realtime (All in One Codebase!). Have a natural seamless conversation with AI everywhere (mobile, web and terminal) using LLM OpenAI G
- Stars
- 6.2k
- Forks
- 771
- Open issues
- 77
- Last push
- 9mo ago
About RealChar
RealChar is a free, open-source AI voice and audio tool by Shaunwei, written mainly in JavaScript. 🎙️🤖Create, Customize and Talk to your AI Character/Companion in Realtime (All in One Codebase!). Have a natural seamless conversation with AI everywhere (mobile, web and terminal) using LLM OpenAI G. It has 6.2k GitHub stars and 771 forks, and was last updated 9mo ago. It's released under the MIT license, a standard open-source license.
- License
- MIT
- Language
- JavaScript
- Stars
- 6,209
- Last update
- 9mo ago
- Runs on Mac
- Not stated
- GPU
- Not stated
- Paid API key
- Not stated
- Self-hostable
- Yes
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RealChar FAQ
Is RealChar free?
Yes. RealChar is open source and free to use. It's released under the MIT license, a standard open-source license.
Does RealChar run on a Mac?
The project doesn't say. Check its installation guide before you start.
Does RealChar need a GPU?
The project doesn't state hardware needs. AI models generally run much faster with a GPU.
Is RealChar still maintained?
It was last updated 9mo ago. Check recent issues on GitHub to judge how active it is.
What are alternatives to RealChar?
Similar free, open-source tools include faster-whisper, whisper.cpp, whisper-standalone-win, speaches.