A quiet place to practice speaking
Scenarios you write, voices that respond, transcripts you can revisit. Talk Buddy is a studio for the conversations that matter — the difficult ones, the first ones, the ones you want to get right.
Local-first. Your recordings and transcripts stay on this device.
A job interview, a difficult meeting, a client call. Choose from the built-in library, import a Practice Pack from a teacher, or write your own.
Speak naturally. Talk Buddy listens, and an AI partner replies aloud — turn by turn, like the real thing. Interrupt it whenever you want.
Every attempt is saved as a transcript with optional analysis, so you can see how you did, spot habits, and practice again.
Speech-to-text that turns your voice into words. Runs fully offline with the bundled Whisper server — no audio ever leaves your machine.
Natural text-to-speech that speaks the replies. The bundled Piper voices work offline; plug in a Speaches server for premium Kokoro voices.
Bring your own AI: Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, Groq — or keep everything local with Ollama. Your key, your choice, one settings tab each.
Talk Buddy is built for classrooms, counselling practice, and nervous rehearsals — the conversations you don't want on someone else's server.
Practice interviews, presentations, and awkward conversations at your own pace, in private, as many times as you need. Track your progress across sessions.
Write scenarios that feel real, group them into Practice Packs, and share them with students as a single file — or a link. No accounts to manage.
Full guides for students, teachers, and scenario authors live in the documentation.