I have one, with 13B, on a 5-year-old 48GB Q8000 GPU. It’s also can see, it’s LLaVA. And it is very important that it is local, as privacy is important and streaming images to the cloud is time consuming.

You only need a few tokens, not the full 500 tokens response to run TTS. And you can pre-generate responses online, as ASR is still in progress. With a bit of clever engineering the response starts with virtually no delay, the moment its natural to start the response.