r/LocalLLaMA: Developer Ships Fully Offline Voice Loop for Ollama on CPU Only — Silero VAD + Parakeet STT + Supertonic TTS 3, Nothing Leaves the Machine

A developer published a fully offline voice interaction pipeline linking Ollama and LM Studio to a complete speech stack — Silero VAD for voice activity detection, Parakeet STT for transcription, and Supertonic TTS 3 for synthesis — running entirely on CPU with no GPU requirement and no data sent to the cloud. The project addresses a persistent gap in local LLM tooling where voice solutions typically required cloud APIs or dedicated GPU hardware. The post drew strong engagement from privacy-focused LocalLLaMA users seeking voice-enabled offline deployments.