Yvette
Yvette, a local, open-source AI companion and low-VRAM voice avatar. Real-time talking-head with voice cloning & design and multi-engine TTS.
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GITHUB · launched Sep 20, 2026 · 15 upvotes (top 52%) · 1 view
Niche: ai companion apps · 190 launches, 13 in the last 7 days ▼ -48% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Agent / copilot
- Prosumer
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Partial The orchestrating UI and companion logic are buildable, but running real-time talking-head avatar rendering, voice cloning, and multi-engine TTS on low VRAM requires advanced ML pipeline optimization.
What it would actually take: Requires an integrated pipeline featuring low-latency speech-to-text (Whisper), real-time neural TTS with voice cloning (XTTS/Piper), and a lightweight audio-driven facial animation/lip-sync model (e.g., SadTalker/Wav2Lip/LivePortrait) optimized via TensorRT/ONNX Runtime to execute under constrained local VRAM budgets.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 706 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #357 of 707 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 321 days after the earliest competitor.
- VoxAster · github · 2026-10-04 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- ai-girlfriend-v2 · github · 2026-09-19 · 36 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- KugelAudio: A multilingual voice AI model you can run in your own cluster. · yc · 2026-05-27 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- ming-voice · github · 2026-10-21 · 273 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- saystack · github · 2026-10-01 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- yovoice · github · 2026-09-15 · 66 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Miso Labs - emotive voice models · yc · 2026-06-03 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- eva · github · 2026-09-28 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.48
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