Voice

SillyTavern

SillyTavern

Talk to your own AI!

In this guide, I’ll cover the process which I used to download and install all the necessary requirements to run SillyTavern on Arch Linux. If you have a moderately powerful PC and an NVIDIA GPU, then, by the end of this guide, you will be able to use your microphone to do voice chat with an AI character, then have them respond back with a lifelike voice of their own. You can go on virtual adventures together and even have more than one AI character active, so they can not only talk to you - but with each other!
oobabooga: AI voice chat

oobabooga: AI voice chat

The "Year of the talking toaster" is coming!

I’ve been playing around more with AI tools, and recently discovered a fun way to use your voice to talk to a “conversational AI”. The cool thing about it, is that it can respond back to you using its own voice. This uses (NLP) natural language processing, which is the ability for computers to understand meaning from spoken language. oobabooga! I’ve been using the “text-generation-webui” by “oobabooga”, which is a “gradio” web UI for running “Large Language Models”.
Install Firestorm on Linux

Install Firestorm on Linux

Penguins invade the metaverse!

New users to Linux may find it a bit “fiddly” getting Second Life up and running. So, in this guide I’ll quickly show you how to install the Firestorm client to access Second Life. The Linux distribution I use is Manjaro Xfce 20.0.3, which is an Arch based. However, the steps below should work on other Linux distros like Ubuntu, Linux Mint or Pop!_OS 📝 Ensure you have your Linux graphics drivers up to date and installed correctly before following the steps below.