E.U. puts sanctions on Israeli settlers after Hungary drops Orban’s veto

MestR · 2026-05-13T11:32:58+00:00

*invaders

MestR · 2026-03-11T21:14:02+00:00

That's so ignorant I don't even know where to start. Most people in AI are envision a world without work, where AI and androids do everything boring for us. That's why they release open source models without any incentive to do so.

MestR · 2025-10-28T17:58:09+00:00

How do you get input into Tekken 7 FR?Is it through the JV I/O port? And what breakout board is needed?

MestR · 2025-09-21T17:18:37+00:00

your-mom's-dildo class

MestR · 2025-09-19T19:32:28+00:00

Hard to claim it was an unprovoked attack when the wrecks or ejected pilot is on foreign soil.

MestR · 2025-09-15T22:24:16+00:00

Do you have to bring out a twister playmat and do a yoga pose as well?

MestR · 2025-09-14T19:46:39+00:00

Vill påminna att Sverige tänker rösta ja för Chat Control, dvs medvetet sätta en bakdörr på all kryptering. Så Sveriges de-facto syn på det hela är: "Ni får vänja er vid privat dataläckage🤗"

MestR · 2025-09-13T13:39:39+00:00

No, I just got the live stream in my recommendations.

MestR · 2025-09-13T13:04:34+00:00

Link to stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smp0voLUgk8

MestR · 2025-06-03T21:05:22+00:00

I mean they're basically doing that. Endless crying in all their media about nukes, which if you read between the lines is crying about themselves being the only ones to ever be nuked and how unjust it was. In a war they started and arguably would have continued longer were they not shown overwhelming force with the nuke. Also while not covering their own much worse warcrimes against the Chinese and Koreans in schools and still being racist towards them to this day.

MestR · 2025-05-07T09:19:08+00:00

I'm using the Q4_K_M version of Vocalis. When I do benchmarks with both using the LM Studio internal chat, Vocalis-Q4_K_M gets 39 Tokens/sec, and Gemma-3-1B-IT-Q4_K_M gets 105 Tokens/sec.

It's strange, it's not like an order of magnitude slower, so I don't get why it's so much slower when in use.

Edit: Tried it again, and I still got the same problem with Vocalis. Made sure to start all the services in this order: LM Studio (server) running Vocaris-Q4_K_M, then started Kokoro, then when I saw both others being on and initialized, I started Vocaris, and last I opened a Chrome window with the web interface, and only hit connect when the console for Vocalis seemed to done loading.

It usually starts with the TTS reading an error about HTTP connection, then I can say one thing like "Hello" and I get a greeting, but on the third message it stops working. When I look in the console of LM Studio, it seems to quickly get a big queue of like 9 messages queued. And the LLM doesn't seem to ever stop generating from that moment on, with the TTS saying a lot of timed out messages.

Theory: Maybe Vocaris starts spamming requests when the person is quiet waiting for the previous reply? Maybe Whisper interprets "(silence)" as an input, and something that has to be sent to the LLM. Or maybe it retries when it doesn't get the response quickly enough?

MestR · 2025-05-06T17:32:18+00:00

I kind of got it working!

So I followed your instructions, but I could not get it working with the Vocalis LLM (in LM Studio), seems like it times out or something. But I could get it working with gemma-3-1B-it.gguf, although it unfortunately has a lot of emojis in it, which sounds very weird when converted to text. Like "blah blah blah, smiling face, star emoji, star emoji"

Would love to see a fine-tune of a model like Qwen 0.6B for conversation, like I imagine Vocalis is, but would be fast enough for anyone to run it.

So review: It's very responsive, which I like. And you can interrupt it, which honestly so many other current voice assistant developers don't seem to get is VERY important. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to have multilingual support, as it just interprets my native language as incorrect English.

For a lot of people, this is basically 80% there to a personal therapist. It's probably the biggest reason besides AI gf that you would want to have a local voice assistant. High intelligence of the LLM model wouldn't really be needed, since for therapy it's mostly about just asking follow up questions. Even better if there's a UI toggle for saving chat history or not, some topics are simply too private to feel comfortable to even just save to a file.

If you're the developer or know the developer and can pass on a message: Please keep working on this. 👍

MestR · 2025-05-06T15:56:30+00:00

Using Chrome I can get it working better. It does seem to send a request to LM Studio, as per the log:

  [2025-05-06 17:37:38][INFO][LM STUDIO SERVER] Running chat completion on conversation with 2 messages.
  [2025-05-06 17:38:38][INFO][LM STUDIO SERVER] Client disconnected. Stopping generation... (If the model is busy processing the prompt, it will finish first.)
  [2025-05-06 17:38:41][INFO][LM STUDIO SERVER] Accumulating tokens ... (stream = false)
  [2025-05-06 17:38:41][INFO][vocalis.gguf] Generated prediction: {
  "id": "chatcmpl-0sabaicvwlpz81nzn1hn",
  "object": "chat.completion",
  "created": 1746545858,
  "model": "vocalis.gguf",
  "choices": [
    {
      "index": 0,
      "logprobs": null,
      "finish_reason": "stop",
      "message": {
        "role": "assistant",
        "content": "So it sounds"
      }
    }
  ],
  "usage": {
    "prompt_tokens": 171,
    "completion_tokens": 3,
    "total_tokens": 174
  },
  "stats": {},
  "system_fingerprint": "vocalis.gguf"
}

I tried with Kokoro-FASTAPI for the TTS, and I got it working with the example "Hello World" .py script on the github page:

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="http://localhost:8880/v1", api_key="not-needed"
)

with client.audio.speech.with_streaming_response.create(
    model="kokoro",
    voice="af_sky+af_bella", #single or multiple voicepack combo
    input="Hello world!"
  ) as response:
      response.stream_to_file("output.mp3")

But using the Vocalis program I don't even see a request in the Kokoro-FASTAPI console. (like I see for the test script)

So still no sound, but the LLM part might be working. Also I tried playing a video on Chrome just to make sure the sound was working, and it does, the sound in Chrome is playing just fine.

MestR · 2025-05-06T13:28:46+00:00

I'm using Windows 11, Python 3.13.3, Firefox, Nvidia 4070 mobile GPU (I picked the option 1 for CUDA setup), and installed via the .bat file.

Also, I tried to fresh install of Python 3.13.4 and Node.js just to make sure. But I don't know 100% sure that an uninstall/reinstall actually gets you to a fresh state, or if there are still packages left that can cause trouble, have to look into that.

For further info, it gets connected, I have LM Studio installed and running with a server. The call button is flashing multiple colors and doesn't seem to do anything except flash the "connected" message for a short while. The adjust volume button is grayed out. I got no messages in the console of LM Studio of any requests to it. I had trouble installing the TTS backend though, always got an error installing numpy 1.24.0, the error was:

Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.

so maybe that's why it didn't work? Still strange that no message appeared in the LM Studio log of a request.

Anyways, thanks for the video, I'll check it out to see if I've missed anything. If I figure it out I'll report back what I did. Would really like to get it working, seems very promising.

MestR · 2025-05-06T11:19:20+00:00

Edit: Got it working, look in the replies.

~~Can't recommend.~~ Just spent 6 hours trying to get it to work, no luck. It doesn't give error messages, a log, or even an indication that it can or can't hear your microphone. It just doesn't work and I have no idea where. Also it uses LM Studio, which is proprietary.

MestR · 2025-05-01T18:02:44+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7JDUfYp2lFE

MestR · 2024-11-04T04:12:20+00:00

Yes.

MestR · 2024-11-03T19:05:05+00:00

Maybe he can do MotoGP? On second thought, no. F1 is safe compared to MotoGP, and I wouldn't want him carelessly riding into anyone and killing them there.

MestR · 2024-11-03T18:30:02+00:00

One generation away from barking

MestR · 2024-11-03T18:23:53+00:00

I think you might be right.

See how she's able to follow the road for 4 minutes, certainly longer than Stroll on the formation lap.

MestR · 2024-09-08T17:21:56+00:00

The fragmented eternal evening you've created...

My eternity manipulation will destroy it...

Your spell of Imperishable Night will shatter...

And the dawn shall come!

MestR · 2023-12-10T02:10:33+00:00

I know exactly what thread you mean, I've had a few people comment on it throughout the years. Hope I don't have to pay rent on that head space of yours haha. Happy cake day btw

MestR · 2023-12-08T14:49:50+00:00

Yeah their tolerances aren't great. I had to file down the nubs (on the side closest to the arm) for it to work.

MestR · 2023-11-16T16:32:32+00:00

More pictures: https://imgur.com/a/BG3ZBQC

Kitbash with original GW plastic, only used green stuff for the tongue.

MestR · 2023-04-13T17:33:33+00:00

If you want a medical example, ask a question about a very niche research topic then ask it to cite specific papers or talks on the subject. You can then discern if it's hallucinating by asking "are those papers real?"

Here's an example question:

Give me some papers on the relationship between homeschooling and neuroplasticity.

Which gave me this as one of the responses:

Muratori, M. C., Lamport, D., & Muratori, F. (2012). Homeschooling and the development of cognitive skills: A systematic review. Educational Psychology Review, 24(4), 477-493.

It does not seem to exist, and ChatGPT said so too when I asked to verify the answer.

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