agentvox 0.1.1

Edge-based voice assistant using Gemma LLM with STT and TTS capabilities

🎙️ AgentVox

Edge-based voice assistant using Gemma LLM with Speech-to-Text and Text-to-Speech capabilities

Key Features

• Speech Recognition (STT): High-speed speech recognition using Faster Whisper
• Conversational AI (LLM): Local LLM based on Llama.cpp (Gemma 3 12B)
• Speech Synthesis (TTS): Fast response with Edge-TTS or Coqui-TTS (with voice cloning support)
• Complete Offline Operation: All processing is done locally, ensuring privacy

Installation

1. Install via pip

pip install agentvox

Or install from source:

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/agentvox.git
cd agentvox
pip install -e .

For NVIDIA CUDA Users

If you have an NVIDIA GPU and want to use CUDA acceleration, you need to rebuild llama-cpp-python with CUDA support:

# Rebuild llama-cpp-python with CUDA support
CMAKE_ARGS="-DGGML_CUDA=on" pip install llama-cpp-python --upgrade --force-reinstall --no-cache-dir

This will significantly improve LLM inference performance on NVIDIA GPUs.

2. Download Model

# Automatically download Gemma model (~7GB)
agentvox --download-model

The model will be saved in ~/.agentvox/models/ directory.

Usage

Basic Usage

# Start voice conversation
agentvox

Speak into your microphone and the AI will respond with voice.

Voice Selection

# List all available voices
agentvox --list-voices

# Use preset voices
agentvox --voice male       # Korean male voice
agentvox --voice female     # Korean female voice
agentvox --voice multilingual  # Korean multilingual male (default)

# Use any Edge-TTS voice directly
agentvox --voice en-US-JennyNeural
agentvox --voice ja-JP-NanamiNeural
agentvox --voice zh-CN-XiaoxiaoNeural

TTS Engine Selection

# Use Edge-TTS (default)
agentvox --tts-engine edge

# Use Coqui-TTS
agentvox --tts-engine coqui

# List available Coqui-TTS models
agentvox --list-tts-models

# Voice cloning with Coqui-TTS
agentvox --tts-engine coqui --speaker-wav speaker_sample.wav

# Record your own voice sample for cloning
agentvox --record-speaker
# Then use the recorded sample
agentvox --tts-engine coqui --speaker-wav speaker_ko.wav

Advanced Configuration

STT (Speech Recognition) Parameters

# Recognize speech in different languages
agentvox --stt-language en

# Increase beam size for more accurate recognition (default: 5)
agentvox --stt-beam-size 10

# Adjust VAD sensitivity (default: 0.5)
agentvox --stt-vad-threshold 0.3

# Adjust minimum speech duration in ms (default: 250)
agentvox --stt-vad-min-speech-duration 200

# Adjust minimum silence duration in ms (default: 1000)
agentvox --stt-vad-min-silence-duration 800

# Change Whisper model size (tiny, base, small, medium, large)
agentvox --stt-model small

LLM (Language Model) Parameters

# Generate longer responses (default: 512)
agentvox --llm-max-tokens 1024

# More creative responses (higher temperature, default: 0.7)
agentvox --llm-temperature 0.9

# More conservative responses (lower temperature)
agentvox --llm-temperature 0.3

# Adjust context size (default: 4096)
agentvox --llm-context-size 8192

# Adjust top-p sampling (default: 0.95)
agentvox --llm-top-p 0.9

Device Configuration

# Auto-detect best available device (default)
agentvox

# Explicitly use CPU
agentvox --device cpu

# Explicitly use CUDA GPU
agentvox --device cuda

# Explicitly use Apple Silicon MPS
agentvox --device mps

The system automatically detects the best available device:

• NVIDIA GPU with CUDA → cuda
• Apple Silicon → mps
• Otherwise → cpu

Combined Examples

# English female voice + English recognition + longer responses
agentvox --voice en-US-JennyNeural --stt-language en --llm-max-tokens 1024

# Japanese voice + high accuracy STT + creative responses
agentvox --voice ja-JP-NanamiNeural --stt-beam-size 10 --llm-temperature 0.9

# Use custom model path
agentvox --model /path/to/your/model.gguf

Python API Usage

from agentvox import VoiceAssistant, ModelConfig, AudioConfig

# Configuration
model_config = ModelConfig(
    stt_model="base",
    llm_temperature=0.7,
    tts_voice="en-US-JennyNeural"  # English female voice
)

audio_config = AudioConfig()

# Initialize voice assistant
assistant = VoiceAssistant(model_config, audio_config)

# Start conversation
assistant.run_conversation_loop()

Using Individual Modules

from agentvox import STTModule, LLMModule, TTSModule, ModelConfig

config = ModelConfig()

# STT (Speech to Text)
stt = STTModule(config)
text = stt.transcribe("audio.wav")

# LLM (Generate text response)
llm = LLMModule(config)
response = llm.generate_response(text)

# TTS (Text to Speech)
tts = TTSModule(config)
tts.speak(response)

Available Commands During Conversation

• "exit" or "종료": Exit the program
• "reset" or "초기화": Reset conversation history
• "history" or "대화 내역": View conversation history

System Requirements

• Python 3.8 or higher
• macOS (with MPS support), Linux, Windows
• Minimum 8GB RAM (16GB recommended)
• Approximately 7GB disk space (for model storage)

Required Packages

• torch >= 2.0.0
• faster-whisper
• llama-cpp-python
• edge-tts
• numpy
• speech_recognition
• pygame
• sounddevice
• soundfile
• pyaudio

Project Structure

agentvox/
├── agentvox/              # Package directory
│   ├── __init__.py               # Package initialization
│   ├── voice_assistant.py        # Main module
│   ├── cli.py                    # CLI interface
│   └── record_speaker_wav.py     # Voice recording module
├── setup.py                      # Package setup
├── pyproject.toml               # Build configuration
├── requirements.txt             # Dependencies
├── README.md                    # Documentation
└── .gitignore                   # Git ignore file

Troubleshooting

PyAudio Installation Error

macOS:

brew install portaudio
pip install pyaudio

Linux:

sudo apt-get install portaudio19-dev python3-pyaudio
pip install pyaudio

Windows:

# Visual Studio Build Tools required
pip install pipwin
pipwin install pyaudio

Out of Memory

For large LLM models:

• Use smaller quantized models
• Reduce context size: --llm-context-size 2048
• Use CPU mode: --device cpu

Microphone Recognition Issues

• Check microphone permissions in system settings
• Close other audio applications
• Adjust VAD threshold: --stt-vad-threshold 0.3
• Reduce silence duration for faster response: --stt-vad-min-silence-duration 500

Model File Not Found

# Download model
agentvox --download-model

# Or download directly
wget https://huggingface.co/tgisaturday/Docsray/resolve/main/gemma-3-12b-it-GGUF/gemma-3-12b-it-Q4_K_M.gguf \
  -O ~/.agentvox/models/gemma-3-12b-it-Q4_K_M.gguf

Performance Optimization

Improve Response Speed

1. Use smaller STT model: --stt-model tiny or base
2. Limit LLM response length: --llm-max-tokens 256
3. Reduce beam size: --stt-beam-size 3

GPU Acceleration

• macOS: Automatic MPS support (--device mps)
• NVIDIA GPU: CUDA support (--device cuda)
• AMD GPU: Requires PyTorch with ROCm support

Developer Information

Developed by MimicLab at Sogang University

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Third-Party Licenses

This project uses several third-party libraries:

• edge-tts: LGPL-3.0 License (for TTS functionality)
• faster-whisper: MIT License (for STT functionality)
• llama-cpp-python: MIT License (for LLM inference)
• Gemma Model: Check the model provider's license terms

For complete third-party license information, see THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.md.

Note on edge-tts: The edge-tts library is licensed under LGPL-3.0. This project uses it as a library dependency without modifications. Users are free to replace edge-tts with their own version if desired. The LGPL-3.0 license of edge-tts does not affect the MIT licensing of this project's source code.

Contributing

Issues and Pull Requests are always welcome!

Development Setup

# Clone repository
git clone https://github.com/yourusername/agentvox.git
cd agentvox

# Install in development mode
pip install -e .

# Run tests
python -m pytest tests/

Multilingual Support

Edge Gemma Speak supports multiple languages through Edge-TTS. You can use voices in various languages:

• English: en-US, en-GB, en-AU, en-CA, en-IN
• Japanese: ja-JP
• Chinese: zh-CN, zh-TW, zh-HK
• Spanish: es-ES, es-MX
• French: fr-FR, fr-CA
• German: de-DE
• Korean: ko-KR
• And many more...

Use --list-voices to see all available voices and their language codes.