Most AI avatars render a video and call it a conversation. Take listens, thinks, and answers live instead — a real speech-to-text-to-LLM-to-lip-sync loop, self-hosted, not a rendered clip. This is Kira, running the actual pipeline.
It doesn't perform once. It talks every time.
a rendered video ends. a conversation doesn't.Your voice is transcribed as you speak (Deepgram), not after you finish.
A response is generated from the conversation so far by an LLM — not a line it's reading.
Spoken back (Cartesia) through the same photo, lip-synced live by a self-hosted MuseTalk model on a rented GPU, in the same breath.
The full loop runs end to end: real speech in, a real generated reply, real lip-synced video out, measured at close to real-time on a rented GPU. It's not left running 24/7 — that costs money for no one to be watching — so it's live when I turn it on. If the button above says offline, reach out and I'll bring it up.
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