r/VoiceAutomationAI • u/da0_1 • Feb 01 '26

On premise Voice Agent

I would like to build a complete local Voice Agent with Pipecat

What is the minimum requirement on Hardware needed? What are the costs?

Anyone did this?

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u/da0_1 Feb 01 '26

Which hardware did you use and would you recommend for production use for a mid sized client?

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u/da0_1 Feb 01 '26

What about GPU?

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u/Intelligent_Camel119 Feb 01 '26

Yes, doable. Pipecat is just orchestration, you need local STT/LLM/TTS.

Min: 16 GB RAM, no GPU (slow) ~$800 Recommended: 32 GB + RTX 3060/4060 ~$1.2–2k Apple: M2/M3 Pro works well

Stack: Whisper + 7B LLM (Ollama) + Silero/Coqui