FORGET Grok Companions! There is a FREE and OPEN SOURCE Alternative (SillyTavern) - Full Tutorial

If you wanna run this on your computer and was thinking of buying a GPU, you can support the channel by using my link: https://amzn.to/3TRpBg1 SillyTavern is a front-end for doing character interactions. It supports multiple AI and non AI integrations like TTS (Kokoro TTS, Orpheus TTS, etc), Speech Recognition like Open AI Whisper, and VRM (for the 3D characters). *In the video, I forgot that my kokoro TTS was running on CPU, so it should be much faster once you get it running on the GPU.* Here's the SillyTavern's github page: https://github.com/SillyTavern/SillyT... Here's the documentation on how to install via docker on both Linux and Windows: https://docs.sillytavern.app/installa... The VRM extension: https://github.com/SillyTavern/Extens... And the VRM assets: https://github.com/test157t/VRM-Asset... Best budget Nvidia GPU for AI: https://amzn.to/3IO4k4k https://mimicpc.com?fpr=sudoai Just in case you want to run Open Source AI models, but belongs to the linux penguins pleb like me, you can use MimicPC to rent a GPU for cheap and have all the major Open Source projects templates ready to use. No need for installation and setup. It saves up big time! and you help this channel by going through my link. Don't worry, the price is the same! https://mimicpc.com?fpr=sudoai #ai #linux #waifu #opensource #sillytavern #aicompanion