🚀 Just released a PoC: Kurtis-E1 MLX Voice Agent
text
🚀 Just released a PoC: Kurtis-E1 MLX Voice Agent
new_line
new_line
An offline, privacy-first voice assistant built for macOS (Apple Silicon), designed for empathetic, short-form interactions.
text
An offline, privacy-first voice assistant built for macOS (Apple Silicon), designed for empathetic, short-form interactions.
new_line
new_line
🧠 Powered by:
text
🧠 Powered by:
new_line
-  Whisper (via MLX) for speech-to-text: 
text
-  Whisper (via MLX) for speech-to-text: 
https://pypi.org/project/mlx-whisper/
https://pypi.org/project/mlx-whisper/
link
new_line
- Kurtis-E1 (a custom SmolLM2 LLM) via Ollama
text
- Kurtis-E1 (a custom SmolLM2 LLM) via Ollama
new_line
- Coqui-TTS XTTSv2 for multilingual TTS
text
- Coqui-TTS XTTSv2 for multilingual TTS
new_line
- Optional translation layer via TowerInstruct-13B-v0.1 for non-English voice input/output: 
text
- Optional translation layer via TowerInstruct-13B-v0.1 for non-English voice input/output: 
https://huggingface.co/Unbabel/TowerInstruct-13B-v0.1
Unbabel/TowerInstruct-13B-v0.1
model
resource
https://huggingface.co/Unbabel/TowerInstruct-13B-v0.1
new_line
new_line
🎧 Everything runs entirely on-device (Mac Mini M4 Max - 24gb) — no cloud, no remote API calls, no data leakage.
text
🎧 Everything runs entirely on-device (Mac Mini M4 Max - 24gb) — no cloud, no remote API calls, no data leakage.
new_line
💡 Code is fully handcrafted (no AI-generated code), and designed to showcase what’s possible with local models, even on laptops.
text
💡 Code is fully handcrafted (no AI-generated code), and designed to showcase what’s possible with local models, even on laptops.
new_line
🛠️ Open to contributions, ideas (e.g., LM Studio for MLX inference, MLX worker subprocess, optimize for latency and VRAM usage).
text
🛠️ Open to contributions, ideas (e.g., LM Studio for MLX inference, MLX worker subprocess, optimize for latency and VRAM usage).
new_line
new_line
👉 Video demo (Italian): 
text
👉 Video demo (Italian): 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-1PcmUStaI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-1PcmUStaI
link
new_line
new_line
PoC: 
text
PoC: 
https://github.com/ethicalabs-ai/Kurtis-E1-MLX-Voice-Agent
https://github.com/ethicalabs-ai/Kurtis-E1-MLX-Voice-Agent
link
new_line
Kurtis-E1: 
text
Kurtis-E1: 
https://huggingface.co/collections/ethicalabs/kurtis-e1-67a9148e0836885c44c7902c
ethicalabs/kurtis-e1-67a9148e0836885c44c7902c
collection
resource
https://huggingface.co/collections/ethicalabs/kurtis-e1-67a9148e0836885c44c7902c
new_line
Kurtis-E1 WebGPU: 
text
Kurtis-E1 WebGPU: 
https://huggingface.co/spaces/ethicalabs/Kurtis-E1-WebGPU
ethicalabs/Kurtis-E1-WebGPU
space
resource
https://huggingface.co/spaces/ethicalabs/Kurtis-E1-WebGPU
🚀 Just released a PoC: Kurtis-E1 MLX Voice Agent

An offline, privacy-first voice assistant built for macOS (Apple Silicon), designed for empathetic, short-form interactions.

🧠 Powered by:
-  Whisper (via MLX) for speech-to-text: https://pypi.org/project/mlx-whisper/
- Kurtis-E1 (a custom SmolLM2 LLM) via Ollama
- Coqui-TTS XTTSv2 for multilingual TTS
- Optional translation layer via TowerInstruct-13B-v0.1 for non-English voice input/output: https://huggingface.co/Unbabel/TowerInstruct-13B-v0.1

🎧 Everything runs entirely on-device (Mac Mini M4 Max - 24gb) — no cloud, no remote API calls, no data leakage.
💡 Code is fully handcrafted (no AI-generated code), and designed to showcase what’s possible with local models, even on laptops.
🛠️ Open to contributions, ideas (e.g., LM Studio for MLX inference, MLX worker subprocess, optimize for latency and VRAM usage).

👉 Video demo (Italian): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-1PcmUStaI

PoC: https://github.com/ethicalabs-ai/Kurtis-E1-MLX-Voice-Agent
Kurtis-E1: https://huggingface.co/collections/ethicalabs/kurtis-e1-67a9148e0836885c44c7902c
Kurtis-E1 WebGPU: https://huggingface.co/spaces/ethicalabs/Kurtis-E1-WebGPU
😎
sudanenator badmonster John6666 sakurasaniya12345 JLouisBiz kuma21 xinnn63 dantezxcd
👍
JLouisBiz onejay185 kuma21 Takugen dantezxcd
🧠
timZelik dantezxcd
6758a9850e3fff481964ca6d
https://cdn-avatars.huggingface.co/v1/production/uploads/no-auth/EolfJfjW25hC4Bt_hCPq8.png
Jean Louis
JLouisBiz
user
66febbf898f30194f8b73451
https://cdn-avatars.huggingface.co/v1/production/uploads/66febbf898f30194f8b73451/b8NrAI3tlWXYw6VMOVHc7.jpeg
Massimo Roberto Scamarcia
mrs83
user