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TYGER
By NineNineSix · Released 17 Oct 2026
A decision model for speech. It listens to the microphone and your text-to-speech at the same time and keeps deciding whether to speak, keep listening, yield or drop in an "mm-hm", scoring audio in 80 ms frames streamed in 320 ms hops. Built for full-duplex voice agents, with an open-source agent (tyger-s2s) on top.
Facts
- Base
- NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 streaming ASR 0.6B
- Licence
- OpenMDW-1.1
- Works with
- Any LLM and TTS (maker's claim)
Claims and sources
Links
Source: Hugging Face → Source: Announcement → Source: Voice agent →
Related projects
Source: nineninesix-ai/tyger-s2s ↗A browser voice agent where the TYGER decision model is the ears: it transcribes you and decides when you've finished, when you've cut in, and when to say "mm-hm", while an LLM writes the replies.
NineNineSix · ★ 53 · Apache-2.0 · TYGER
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