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QVAC is the fastest engine for audio on your own device
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QVAC is the fastest engine for audio on your own device

Our engineering team has been optimising the QVAC audio stack, so we measured it. We put qvac-fabric-speech.cpp against the open-source engines people run for transcription, speech synthesis and music generation, on four machines and six GPU lanes, timing every engine from outside its own process so that nobody's own stopwatch is quoted. QVAC leads on the GPU lanes we measured, across every vendor. Here is each number, and how we took it.

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Local AI 101: what local models are good for

Local AI 101: what local models are good for

Running AI on your own machine raises two questions at once: which models your laptop can actually run, and which model to use for which task. This first part answers the second one, job by job, across chat, documents, speech, translation, images and video. Every model listed runs through QVAC, the free and open-source toolkit we build for local AI, on laptops and on phones, with nothing leaving your device.

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