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Open-Source Real-Time Avatar System

The document outlines a project to create a real-time, open-source avatar system capable of listening, thinking, speaking, and live-streaming with sub-second latency, using only local or self-hosted components. Key features include real-time audio processing, lip-synced animation, an offline speech stack, and interchangeable frontend avatars, with a focus on modularity and configurability for various applications. Deliverables include source code, reference avatars, a demo web app, documentation, and a benchmark report, all while adhering to strict acceptance criteria of no paid APIs and easy customization.

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Open-Source Real-Time Avatar System

The document outlines a project to create a real-time, open-source avatar system capable of listening, thinking, speaking, and live-streaming with sub-second latency, using only local or self-hosted components. Key features include real-time audio processing, lip-synced animation, an offline speech stack, and interchangeable frontend avatars, with a focus on modularity and configurability for various applications. Deliverables include source code, reference avatars, a demo web app, documentation, and a benchmark report, all while adhering to strict acceptance criteria of no paid APIs and easy customization.

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Problem Statement

Build a real-time, open-source, modular avatar system that can listen, think, speak, and
live-stream with sub-second latency. The avatar must be fully local or self-hosted with
no paid APIs. The design should be generic, configurable, and easily re pursuable
(education, support bot, campus guide, helpdesk, etc.) with minimal changes.

Core capabilities
• Real-time audio I/O and streaming: Capture mic input, render synthesized speech/video,
and broadcast to viewers with WebRTC or equivalent, targeting sub-second latency.
Prefer Janus/Ant Media Server or similar open-source media servers; RTMP/HLS can be
provided as fallback.
• Lip-synced talking head: Given either TTS audio or pre-recorded audio, animate a 2D
face or 3D head with high-quality lip sync in real time; acceptable open-source options
include Wav2Lip or MuseTalk. Support at least 24–30 FPS on a single consumer GPU.
• Offline or self-hostable speech stack: Open-source ASR (e.g., Whisper variants) and
open-source TTS capable of low-latency streaming synthesis; must output
phonemes/visemes or timestamps usable for lip sync. No paid cloud TTS.
• Reasoning/LLM: Use an open-source chat model (e.g., Llama-family via local inference).
Allow plug-and-play to swap models and prompt templates. No paid APIs.
• Frontend avatar rendering: Provide two interchangeable frontends:
• 2D talking-head (image-driven) using lip-sync model output.
• Web 3D avatar (GLB/ReadyPlayerMe spec) with blendshape/viseme mapping driven by
phoneme timings.
• Session orchestration: Real-time loop: mic audio → ASR → LLM → TTS (+phonemes) →
lip-sync/3D visemes → stream to viewers. Design must support back-pressure and
graceful degradation.

Deliverables
• Source code and Docker compose for all services; single command brings up the stack
locally with GPU if available.
• Two reference avatars:
• 2D portrait image talking head pipeline.
• 3D GLB avatar pipeline with viseme mapping.
• Demo web app:
• One-to-one conversation view (caller + avatar) and viewer broadcast mode.
• Toggle between ASR→LLM→TTS loop and text-input mode.
• Documentation:
• Setup guides for Ubuntu with NVIDIA GPU, model downloads, and performance tips.
• Architecture diagram and module interfaces to enable reuse in other projects.
• Benchmark report:
• Latency per stage, FPS, VRAM/CPU usage for small/medium models, and scalability
notes.

Acceptance criteria
• Fully functional local demo with: live mic input, real-time response, synchronized mouth
movements, and WebRTC live playback with sub-second to near-real-time latency.
• No paid or proprietary APIs; all components must run from open-source projects with
local inference.
• Easy retargeting: Changing the avatar (new image or GLB) and swapping the LLM or TTS
must not require code changes beyond config edits.
• Documented deployment for CPU-only fallback and GPU-accelerated paths, with
expected quality differences.

Suggested open-source building blocks (non-binding)


• Streaming: Janus Gateway or Ant Media Server Community for WebRTC; fallback RTMP
ingest to server.
• Lip-sync: Wav2Lip, MuseTalk; optional CodeFormer/ESRGAN for quality.
• ASR: Whisper variants (local).
• TTS: Open-source TTS with phoneme/timestamp support or alignment workflow.
• 3D frontend: [Link] with ReadyPlayerMe-style GLB and viseme mapping.

This framing keeps it generic, reusable, and fully open-source, while supporting live
streaming, lip-sync, and GPU acceleration for real-time performance.

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