Tyger: open-weights streaming ASR + full-duplex turn-control in one model
Hi r/LocalLLaMA, we're releasing Tyger, a small model that handles full-duplex turn-control for voice agents.
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Key points
- Base: NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B + 14M causal GRU on top.
- A full voice agent: Tuger + Gemma 4 E4B FP8 + VoxCPM2.
- ~0.7 s replies on an RTX 5090 [measured from end of user speech to first audio]
- Tyger itself is small, but the tyger-s2s stack needs 28 GB VRAM.
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- [1]Tyger: open-weights streaming ASR + full-duplex turn-control in one modelr/LocalLLaMA (top, daily) · Oct 16, 05:42 PM
Hi r/LocalLLaMA, we're releasing Tyger, a small model that handles full-duplex turn-control for voice agents.
Base: NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming 0.6B + 14M causal GRU on top.
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