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* feat(realtime): pipeline streaming + disable_thinking config
Add a nested pipeline.streaming.{llm,tts,transcription} block plus
pipeline.disable_thinking, with StreamLLM/StreamTTS/StreamTranscription/
ThinkingDisabled helpers. Pointer-bools so unset keeps the unary path;
existing configs are unaffected. Wiring into the realtime handler follows.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 go vet
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(realtime): sentence segmenter for streamed LLM->TTS pipelining
streamSegmenter accumulates streamed LLM tokens and emits complete
sentence/clause segments (terminator+whitespace, or newline) so TTS can
synthesize each segment as it completes instead of waiting for the whole
reply. Pure helper; the streaming handler wiring consumes it next.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 go vet
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(realtime): streaming TTS/transcription methods on Model interface
Add TTSStream and TranscribeStream to the realtime Model interface and
implement them on wrappedModel (delegating to backend.ModelTTSStream /
ModelTranscriptionStream) and transcriptOnlyModel. ttsStream adapts the
backend's WAV-framed stream (44-byte header carrying the sample rate, then
PCM) into raw PCM + sample rate for the realtime transports. Handler wiring
that consumes these (flag-gated) follows.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 go vet
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(realtime): emitSpeech with flag-gated streaming TTS
emitSpeech synthesizes a piece of text and forwards audio to the client,
streaming one output_audio.delta per backend PCM chunk when the pipeline
sets streaming.tts, or one delta for the whole utterance otherwise. WebRTC
gets raw PCM (it resamples internally); WebSocket gets base64 PCM at the
session rate. It emits no transcript/audio-done events so a streamed reply
can be split into multiple spoken segments sharing one response.
Adds fakeModel/fakeTransport test doubles for the realtime Model/Transport
interfaces, driving streaming assertions deterministically.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 go vet
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(realtime): route response audio through emitSpeech (streaming TTS)
Replace the inline unary TTS block in the response handler with emitSpeech,
which streams a response.output_audio.delta per backend PCM chunk when
pipeline.streaming.tts is set and otherwise preserves the single-delta unary
behaviour. emitSpeech returns the accumulated base64 audio, stored on the
conversation item as before. Transcript and audio-done events stay in the
handler so later per-segment streaming can reuse emitSpeech.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 go vet
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(realtime): streaming transcription text deltas
Add emitTranscription and route commitUtterance through it. With
pipeline.streaming.transcription set it streams each transcript fragment as
a conversation.item.input_audio_transcription.delta via TranscribeStream
then a completed event; otherwise it preserves the single completed-event
unary behaviour. Returns the final transcript for response generation.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 go vet
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(realtime): pipeline disable_thinking maps to enable_thinking off
applyPipelineThinking forces the LLM's ReasoningConfig.DisableReasoning when
pipeline.disable_thinking is set, which gRPCPredictOpts turns into the
enable_thinking=false backend metadata. Applied at newModel construction on
the per-session LLM config copy, so it doesn't leak to other model users and
needs no realtime-specific request plumbing.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 go vet
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(realtime): speechStreamer for token-streamed LLM->TTS
emitSpeech now returns raw PCM (caller base64-encodes) so streamed segments
accumulate correctly. speechStreamer consumes streamed LLM tokens: it strips
reasoning via the streaming ReasoningExtractor, emits a transcript delta per
content fragment, and sentence-pipes content into emitSpeech so each sentence
is synthesized as soon as it's ready. Handler wiring (plain-content turns)
follows.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 go vet
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(realtime): wire streamLLMResponse for token-streamed replies
triggerResponseAtTurn takes a streamed path when pipeline.streaming.llm is
set, the turn has no tools, and audio is requested: streamLLMResponse
announces the assistant item, drives the LLM token callback through a
speechStreamer (reasoning-stripped transcript deltas + sentence-piped TTS),
and emits the terminal events. Tool turns and non-streaming pipelines keep
the existing buffered path unchanged, so this is strictly opt-in.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 go vet
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* docs(realtime): document pipeline streaming + disable_thinking
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* fix(realtime): register pipeline streaming/thinking config fields
TestAllFieldsHaveRegistryEntries (core/config/meta) requires every config
field to have a meta registry entry. The four new pipeline fields
(disable_thinking, streaming.{llm,tts,transcription}) had none, failing
tests-linux/tests-apple. Add toggle entries for them.
Also handle the os.Remove return in realtime_speech_test.go to satisfy
errcheck (golangci-lint).
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 go test, golangci-lint
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* fix(realtime): always strip reasoning from spoken output
disable_thinking maps to ReasoningConfig.DisableReasoning=true on the LLM
config, which the backend reads as enable_thinking=false. But the realtime
handler reads that SAME config to drive reasoning extraction, and there
DisableReasoning=true means "skip stripping". PredictConfig() returns this
LLM config, so both the streamed (speechStreamer) and buffered realtime
paths stopped stripping <think>…</think> exactly when disable_thinking was
on — leaking raw reasoning to the client whenever the model ignored the
enable_thinking hint (e.g. lfm2.5).
Add spokenReasoningConfig() which clears DisableReasoning for extraction
(keeping custom tokens/tag pairs) and route both realtime paths through it.
Spoken output now always strips reasoning, independent of the backend
suppression hint.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 go test, golangci-lint
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* fix(realtime): clean TTS temp path before read (gosec G304)
emitSpeech reads the WAV file the TTS backend wrote. The read moved here
from realtime.go, so code-scanning flagged it as a new G304 alert even
though the path is backend-controlled (a temp file), not user input.
Wrap it in filepath.Clean — a real path normalization that also clears
the alert, keeping with the repo's no-#nosec convention.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 gosec, golangci-lint
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* refactor(realtime): buffer whole message for TTS, drop sentence segmenter
Per review (richiejp): the sentence segmenter pipelined unary TTS by
splitting on ASCII .!?/newline, which does nothing for languages without
those boundaries (CJK/Thai) — there it already degraded to buffering the
whole message anyway.
Replace it with a uniform model: stream the LLM transcript live, buffer the
full message, then synthesize it once. emitSpeech already streams the audio
chunks when the backend implements TTSStream and falls back to a single
unary delta otherwise, so this is real streaming TTS where supported and a
clean whole-message synthesis elsewhere — no per-sentence emulation, no
language assumptions. speechStreamer becomes transcriptStreamer (transcript
deltas only); the whole-message synthesis moves into streamLLMResponse.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 go test, golangci-lint
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(realtime): stream tool-call turns via tokenizer-template autoparser
Per review (richiejp): tool-call deltas exist, so streaming should work with
tools too. It does — for models that use their tokenizer template. The C++
autoparser then clears reply.Message and delivers content + tool calls via
ChatDeltas, so the streamed transcript carries only spoken content (no
tool-call JSON leak) and the tool calls are parsed from the final response.
- Drop the len(tools)==0 gate; stream when no tools OR use_tokenizer_template
(grammar-based function calling still buffers, since its call is emitted as
JSON in the token stream and would leak into the transcript).
- streamLLMResponse takes tools/toolChoice/toolTurn, reads ChatDelta content
in the token callback, parses tool calls from the final ChatDeltas, and
creates the assistant content item lazily so a content-less tool turn emits
only the tool calls.
- Extract emitToolCallItems from the buffered path so both paths finalize tool
calls, response.done, and server-side assistant-tool follow-ups identically.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 go test, golangci-lint
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(realtime): script-aware clause chunking + streamed-reply fixes
Opt-in pipeline.streaming.clause_chunking splits the streamed LLM reply
into speakable clauses and synthesizes each as soon as it completes,
lowering time-to-first-audio instead of buffering the whole message. The
splitter is script-aware (rivo/uniseg, pure Go): UAX#29 sentence
segmentation handles CJK 。！？ with no whitespace, CJK clause
punctuation (，、；：) and Thai/Lao spaces give finer cuts, and a UAX#14
line-break cap bounds an over-long punctuation-less run. Unlike the old
ASCII .!?/newline segmenter (dropped in 076dcdbe) it does not degrade to
whole-message buffering for CJK/Thai; scripts needing a dictionary
(Khmer/Burmese) stay buffered until a space or end-of-message. Clauses
are synthesized synchronously in the token callback (the LLM keeps
generating into the gRPC stream meanwhile), so audio still starts
mid-generation. Off by default — the whole-message path is unchanged.
Also fix the streamed-reply path and the Talk page:
- Don't swallow streamed autoparser content as reasoning: the
tokenizer-template path already delivers reasoning-free content via
ChatDeltas, so prefilling the thinking start token re-tagged it as an
unclosed reasoning block, leaving no spoken reply. Disable the prefill
on that path; closed tag pairs are still stripped (#9985).
- Generate collision-free realtime IDs (16 random bytes) instead of a
constant, so per-item bookkeeping (cancel, conversation.item.retrieve)
works.
- Key the Talk transcript by the server item_id and upsert entries.
Realtime events arrive over a WebRTC data channel — outside React's
event system — so React defers the setTranscript updaters while
synchronous ref writes in handler bodies run first; the old
index-tracking ref rendered a duplicate assistant bubble on
completion. Upserts by item_id are idempotent and order-independent.
- Drop the partial assistant bubble on a cancelled response (barge-in):
the server discards the interrupted item and sends response.done with
status "cancelled"; mirror that in the UI so the regenerated reply
isn't rendered as a second assistant message.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 [Claude Code]
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
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Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
LocalAI is the open-source AI engine. Run any model - LLMs, vision, voice, image, video - on any hardware. No GPU required.
A small core, not a bundle. Each backend wraps a best-in-class engine (llama.cpp, vLLM, whisper.cpp, stable-diffusion, MLX...) in its own image, pulled only when a model needs it. You install nothing you don't use.
- Composable by design: backends are separate and pulled on demand, so you install only what your model needs
- Open and extensible: load any model, or build your own backend in any language against an open interface
- Drop-in API compatibility: OpenAI, Anthropic, and ElevenLabs APIs across every backend
- Any model, any modality: LLMs, vision, voice, image, and video behind one API
- Any hardware: NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, Apple Silicon, Vulkan, or CPU-only
- Multi-user ready: API key auth, user quotas, role-based access
- Built-in AI agents: autonomous agents with tool use, RAG, MCP, and skills
- Privacy-first: your data never leaves your infrastructure
Created by Ettore Di Giacinto and maintained by the LocalAI team.
📖 Documentation | 💬 Discord | 💻 Quickstart | 🖼️ Models | ❓FAQ
Guided tour
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/08cbb692-57da-48f7-963d-2e7b43883c18
Click to see more!
User and auth
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/228fa9ad-81a3-4d43-bfb9-31557e14a36c
Agents
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/6270b331-e21d-4087-a540-6290006b381a
Usage metrics per user
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/cbb03379-23b4-4e3d-bd26-d152f057007f
Fine-tuning and Quantization
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5ba4ace9-d3df-4795-b7d4-b0b404ea71ee
WebRTC
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ed88e34c-fed3-4b83-8a67-4716a9feeb7b
Quickstart
macOS
Note: The DMG is not signed by Apple. After installing, run:
sudo xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/LocalAI.app. See #6268 for details.
Containers (Docker, podman, ...)
Already ran LocalAI before? Use
docker start -i local-aito restart an existing container.
CPU only:
docker run -ti --name local-ai -p 8080:8080 localai/localai:latest
NVIDIA GPU:
# CUDA 13
docker run -ti --name local-ai -p 8080:8080 --gpus all localai/localai:latest-gpu-nvidia-cuda-13
# CUDA 12
docker run -ti --name local-ai -p 8080:8080 --gpus all localai/localai:latest-gpu-nvidia-cuda-12
# NVIDIA Jetson ARM64 (CUDA 12, for AGX Orin and similar)
docker run -ti --name local-ai -p 8080:8080 --gpus all localai/localai:latest-nvidia-l4t-arm64
# NVIDIA Jetson ARM64 (CUDA 13, for DGX Spark)
docker run -ti --name local-ai -p 8080:8080 --gpus all localai/localai:latest-nvidia-l4t-arm64-cuda-13
AMD GPU (ROCm):
docker run -ti --name local-ai -p 8080:8080 --device=/dev/kfd --device=/dev/dri --group-add=video localai/localai:latest-gpu-hipblas
Intel GPU (oneAPI):
docker run -ti --name local-ai -p 8080:8080 --device=/dev/dri/card1 --device=/dev/dri/renderD128 localai/localai:latest-gpu-intel
Vulkan GPU:
docker run -ti --name local-ai -p 8080:8080 localai/localai:latest-gpu-vulkan
Loading models
# From the model gallery (see available models with `local-ai models list` or at https://models.localai.io)
local-ai run llama-3.2-1b-instruct:q4_k_m
# From Huggingface
local-ai run huggingface://TheBloke/phi-2-GGUF/phi-2.Q8_0.gguf
# From the Ollama OCI registry
local-ai run ollama://gemma:2b
# From a YAML config
local-ai run https://gist.githubusercontent.com/.../phi-2.yaml
# From a standard OCI registry (e.g., Docker Hub)
local-ai run oci://localai/phi-2:latest
To test a running LocalAI server from the terminal, open an interactive chat session from another shell. Inside the prompt, /models lists installed models and /model <name> switches between them.
# Terminal 1
local-ai run llama-3.2-1b-instruct:q4_k_m
# Terminal 2
local-ai chat --model llama-3.2-1b-instruct:q4_k_m
Automatic Backend Detection: LocalAI automatically detects your GPU capabilities and downloads the appropriate backend. For advanced options, see GPU Acceleration.
For more details, see the Getting Started guide.
Latest News
- May 2026: LocalAI 4.3.0 -
llama.cppprompt cache on by default (repeated system prompts collapse from minutes to seconds), keyless cosign signing of backend OCI images, per-API-key + per-user usage attribution, Distributed v3 with per-request replica routing. Release notes - May 2026: LocalAI 4.2.0 - LocalAI sees and hears: voice recognition, face recognition + antispoofing liveness, speaker diarization. Plus drop-in Ollama API, video generation, redesigned UI with i18n + admin-configurable branding, vLLM at feature parity with llama.cpp, and 11 new backends. Release notes
- April 2026: LocalAI 4.1.0 - LocalAI becomes a control tower: distributed cluster mode with VRAM-aware smart routing + autoscaling, multi-user platform with OIDC and API keys, per-user quotas with predictive analytics, in-UI fine-tuning with TRL (auto-export to GGUF), on-the-fly quantization backend, visual pipeline editor. Release notes
- March 2026: LocalAI 4.0.0 - native agentic orchestration with the new Agenthub community hub, full React UI rewrite with Canvas mode, MCP Apps + client-side with tool streaming, WebRTC realtime audio, MLX-distributed. Release notes
- February 2026: Realtime API for audio-to-audio with tool calling, ACE-Step 1.5 support
- January 2026: LocalAI 3.10.0 — Anthropic API support, Open Responses API, video & image generation (LTX-2), unified GPU backends, tool streaming, Moonshine, Pocket-TTS. Release notes
- December 2025: Dynamic Memory Resource reclaimer, Automatic multi-GPU model fitting (llama.cpp), Vibevoice backend
- November 2025: Import models via URL, Multiple chats and history
- October 2025: Model Context Protocol (MCP) support for agentic capabilities
- September 2025: New Launcher for macOS and Linux, extended backend support for Mac and Nvidia L4T, MLX-Audio, WAN 2.2
- August 2025: MLX, MLX-VLM, Diffusers, llama.cpp now supported on Apple Silicon
- July 2025: All backends migrated outside the main binary — lightweight, modular architecture
For older news and full release notes, see GitHub Releases and the News page.
Features
- Text generation (
llama.cpp,transformers,vllm... and more) - Text to Audio
- Audio to Text
- Image generation
- OpenAI-compatible tools API
- Realtime API (Speech-to-speech)
- Embeddings generation
- Constrained grammars
- Download models from Huggingface
- Vision API
- Object Detection
- Reranker API
- P2P Inferencing
- Distributed Mode — Horizontal scaling with PostgreSQL + NATS
- Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- Built-in Agents — Autonomous AI agents with tool use, RAG, skills, SSE streaming, and Agent Hub
- Backend Gallery — Install/remove backends on the fly via OCI images
- Voice Activity Detection (Silero-VAD)
- Integrated WebUI
Supported Backends & Acceleration
LocalAI supports 36+ backends including llama.cpp, vLLM, transformers, whisper.cpp, diffusers, MLX, MLX-VLM, and many more. Hardware acceleration is available for NVIDIA (CUDA 12/13), AMD (ROCm), Intel (oneAPI/SYCL), Apple Silicon (Metal), Vulkan, and NVIDIA Jetson (L4T). All backends can be installed on-the-fly from the Backend Gallery.
See the full Backend & Model Compatibility Table and GPU Acceleration guide.
Resources
- Documentation
- LLM fine-tuning guide
- Build from source
- Kubernetes installation
- Integrations & community projects
- Installation video walkthrough
- Media & blog posts
- Examples
Team
LocalAI is maintained by a small team of humans, together with the wider community of contributors.
- Ettore Di Giacinto — original author and project lead
- Richard Palethorpe — maintainer
A huge thank you to everyone who contributes code, reviews PRs, files issues, and helps users in Discord — LocalAI is a community-driven project and wouldn't exist without you. See the full contributors list.
Citation
If you utilize this repository, data in a downstream project, please consider citing it with:
@misc{localai,
author = {Ettore Di Giacinto},
title = {LocalAI: The free, Open source OpenAI alternative},
year = {2023},
publisher = {GitHub},
journal = {GitHub repository},
howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI}},
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LocalAI is a community-driven project created by Ettore Di Giacinto and maintained by the LocalAI team.
MIT - Author Ettore Di Giacinto mudler@localai.io
Acknowledgements
LocalAI couldn't have been built without the help of great software already available from the community. Thank you!
- llama.cpp
- https://github.com/tatsu-lab/stanford_alpaca
- https://github.com/cornelk/llama-go for the initial ideas
- https://github.com/antimatter15/alpaca.cpp
- https://github.com/EdVince/Stable-Diffusion-NCNN
- https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp
- https://github.com/rhasspy/piper
- exo for the MLX distributed auto-parallel sharding implementation
Contributors
This is a community project, a special thanks to our contributors!