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Re: Ichigo: Local real-time voice AI

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Oct 17, 2024, 12:50 AM UTC

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Re: Ichigo: Local real-time voice AI

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Post by mmastrac » Thu, Oct 17, 2024, 1:12 AM UTC

d3w3y wrote: post #4

cassepipe wrote: post #2

Finally I can use one of the random facts that have entered my brain for decades now even though I can't remember where my keys are. If I remember correctly, "ichigo" means strawberry in japanese. You are welcome.

There are strawberries all over the readme so I reck you're right.

Is this a continuation of the meme that GPT can't identify the number of "R"s in "strawberry"?

Re: Ichigo: Local real-time voice AI

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Post by emreckartal » Thu, Oct 17, 2024, 2:15 AM UTC

Emre here from Homebrew Research. It's great to see Ichigo on HN!

A quick intro: We're a Local AI company building local AI tools and training open-source models.

Ichigo is our training method that enables LLMs to understand human speech and talk back with low latency - thanks to FishSpeech integration. It is open data, open weights, and weight initialized with Llama 3.1, extending its reasoning ability.

Plus, we are the creators and lead maintainers of: https://jan.ai/, Local AI Assistant - an alternative to ChatGPT & https://cortex.so/, Local AI Toolkit (soft launch coming soon)

Everything we build and train is done out in the open - we share our progress on:

https://x.com/homebrewltd https://discord.gg/hTmEwgyrEg

You can check out all our products on our simple website: https://homebrew.ltd/

Re: Ichigo: Local real-time voice AI

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Post by dev-jayson » Thu, Oct 17, 2024, 2:15 AM UTC

mmastrac wrote: post #12

d3w3y wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are strawberries all over the readme so I reck you're right.

Is this a continuation of the meme that GPT can't identify the number of "R"s in "strawberry"?

I think you might be on to something

Re: Ichigo: Local real-time voice AI

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Post by p0larboy » Thu, Oct 17, 2024, 2:15 AM UTC

Tried demo but all I got was "I'm sorry, I can't quite catch that".

Re: Ichigo: Local real-time voice AI

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Oct 17, 2024, 2:16 AM UTC

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Re: Ichigo: Local real-time voice AI

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Post by emreckartal » Thu, Oct 17, 2024, 2:29 AM UTC

lostmsu wrote: post #7

Very cool, but a bit less practical than some alternatives because it does not seem to do request transcription.

Actually, it does. You can turn on the transcription feature from the bottom right corner and even type to Ichigo if you want. We didn’t show it in the launch video since we were focusing on the verbal interaction side of things.

Re: Ichigo: Local real-time voice AI

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Post by emreckartal » Thu, Oct 17, 2024, 2:30 AM UTC

cchance wrote: post #9

its amazing to see cool projects like this really REALLY based in opensource and open training like this wow

Thanks! It's all open research, source code, data, and weights.

Re: Ichigo: Local real-time voice AI

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Post by emreckartal » Thu, Oct 17, 2024, 2:33 AM UTC

p0larboy wrote: post #15

Tried demo but all I got was "I'm sorry, I can't quite catch that".

We're running the demo on a single 3090, so it may sometimes be a bit buggy. You can try running it locally here: https://github.com/homebrewltd/ichigo-demo/tree/docker

The documentation isn't very detailed yet, but we're planning to improve it and add support for various hardware.

Re: Ichigo: Local real-time voice AI

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Post by emreckartal » Thu, Oct 17, 2024, 2:37 AM UTC

tmshapland wrote: post #10

This is a really cool project! What have people built with it? I'd love to learn about what local apps people are building on this.

Thanks! We've received feedback on use cases like live translation, safe and untrackable educational tools for kids, and language-learning apps. There are so many possibilities, and hope to see guys building amazing products on top of Ichigo.