Author name: /u/purellmagents

Built a Voice Agents from Scratch GitHub tutorial: mic > Whisper > local LLM (GGUF) > Kokoro > speaker, fully local, no API keys

/u/purellmagents / May 3, 2026

Been building this for a while and finally cleaned it up enough to share. voice-agents-from-scratch is a numbered, chapter-by-chapter repo that walks the full real-time pipeline: Microphone capture Whisper for STT Local GGUF LLM (via llama.cpp) Kokoro…

LocalLLaMA

Building a fully local PDF-to-audiobook workflow with Kokoro 82M, Qwen and llama.cpp

/u/purellmagents / April 29, 2026

Hey everyone, I’ve been building a local-first desktop PDF reader that can read technical books aloud and keep the spoken text highlighted while reading. The original motivation was pretty practical: I read a lot of programming and technical book…