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How Tolan builds voice-first AI with GPT-5.1

Tolan built a voice-first AI companion with GPT-5. 1, combining low-latency responses, real-time context reconstruction, and memory-driven personalities for natural conversations.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 21

ChipChat: Low-Latency Cascaded Conversational Agent in MLX

arXiv:2509. 00078v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The emergence of large language models (LLMs) has transformed spoken dialog systems, yet the optimal architecture for real-time on-device voice agents remains an open question.

By Tatiana Likhomanenko, Richard He Bai, Zijin Gu, Zakaria Aldeneh, Shiladitya Dutta, Luke Carlson, Han Tran, Yizhe Zhang, Ruixiang Zhang, Huangjie Zheng, Navdeep Jaitly