Local text to speech with Breeze is truly incredible

Been playing around with local TTS with Breeze combined with STT, and the results are amazing. Using Opus 5.5, I can hear the first sound after 500ms if there is no thinking involved, and with thinking on low mode, can be 1-1.5s.

I'm using a BLE remote (the kind that are used for taking pics with phones) combined with a wireless microphone. So I can just sit on the couch, and just talk to her.

She watches for any claude session that finishes, and sends me the results in a very short, spoken style summary, and tells me if there is anything waiting for my decision, then forwards my decisions.

Also impressed how consistent Opus 5.5 is in the communication. Even after more than 500k in context, he still remembers that he's in a live session with me, and has to keep messages short. Used to be an issue in the past.

The future is here guys.

Edit: For those who wanna give it a try, you can find free avatars such as this one: https://www.live2d.com/en/learn/sample/niziiro-mao/ or you can buy one from a marketplace.

Edit2: Might open-source that later next week with a free avatar. Let me know if anyone would like to contribute to the project.