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2026-08-24 / HACKER NEWS
A Local AI Gaming Companion Hits 500-700ms End to End by Splitting the Budget Across Four Models on an M4 MacBook
Varkos plays Skyrim alongside its author using a custom streaming harness around Qwen3-ASR 1.7b processing audio in 40-80ms windows, an Action Latent Encoder mixing embeddings, small classifiers and explicit rules at about 20ms, PocketTTS-Raven and an optimized Qwen-3-TTS generating audio in 20-60ms, and a locally fine-tuned LLM handling persona fusion and grounding in 300-600ms. The whole thing runs on an M4 MacBook, or roughly 12GB of GPU RAM on Windows. PocketTTS-Raven is already open source and the Qwen3-ASR harness is promised next, which is the reusable piece for anyone building low-latency voice agents.
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