RFD 1170: A cleanroom presence loop, and which components swap
Problem
victor/gemma-avatar runs the loop this workspace wants — speak, be understood, be answered by a lip-syncing face — and states no licence. Its integration code cannot be taken.
Decision
Study it, take nothing, rebuild from the components it names — cheap, because every component is separately licensed and clean; only the glue is unlicensed.
their stage licence ours
silero-VAD MIT keep
parakeet-tdt-1.1b CC-BY-4.0 Qwen3-ASR-1.7B, Apache-2.0
gemma-4-31B, API Apache-2.0 Qwen3-VL-8B, local
Qwen3-TTS 12Hz Apache-2.0 already ours
TalkingHead MIT keep, or ANNY through Godot
three.js MIT Godot, with Mitsuba as oracleTheir TTS choice is ours, independently — the same Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-CustomVoice RFD 1166 seated at 4 the same day.
Two stages swap for reasons already held here. Parakeet is licence-clean but has no compiled path, while RFD 1169 puts Qwen3-ASR’s encoder inside DEVICE_OPS. Gemma 4 is Apache-2.0 — RFD 1155 abandoned it on shape, not licence — but 31 B does not fit 8 GB and a hosted API cannot be a corpus source. The lip-sync is the part we lack, and DETAILS.md carries what TalkingHead does and what is unknown.