# Shaunwei/RealChar

🎙️🤖Create, Customize and Talk to your AI Character/Companion in Realtime (All in One Codebase!). Have a natural seamless conversation with AI everywhere (mobile, web and terminal) using LLM OpenAI GPT3.5/4, Anthropic Claude2, Chroma Vector DB, Whisper Speech2Text, ElevenLabs Text2Speech🎙️🤖

Repository: https://github.com/Shaunwei/RealChar
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/realchar
Homepage: https://RealChar.ai/
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-01-20T01:23:18+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 48/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 63, release rhythm 8, longevity 83
- inputs: {"age_days": 1164, "days_push": 226, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 6213, forks 776 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:40.085106+00:00)

## What it is
RealChar is an open-source application for creating, customizing, and talking to AI characters/companions in realtime via voice or text. It integrates LLMs (OpenAI GPT-3.5/4, Anthropic Claude), Whisper speech-to-text, ElevenLabs text-to-speech, and Chroma vector DB in a single codebase, with web, mobile, and terminal clients.

## Use cases
- create a custom AI companion with its own personality and voice
- have realtime voice conversations with an AI character
- build a voice chatbot using GPT-4 and ElevenLabs
- talk to AI characters on mobile, web, or terminal
- clone a voice for an AI character
- self-host an AI companion app with memory via vector database

## When to choose
- you want an all-in-one, self-hostable realtime AI character app with voice
- you need multi-platform clients (web, mobile, terminal) from one codebase
- you want modular swapping of LLM, STT, and TTS providers

## When to avoid
- you only need a text-based chatbot library to embed in your own app
- you want a fully managed hosted service without running your own API keys and infrastructure
- you need production-grade enterprise support or fine-grained multi-tenant controls

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: llm-inference, speech-recognition, tts, rag, chatbot, agent-framework, web-framework
- domain: artificial-intelligence, large-language-models, chatbots, speech-processing
- platform: cross-platform, cli, python
- tags: ai-companion, voice-chat, realtime-conversation, character-creation, elevenlabs, whisper, openai, anthropic-claude, chroma-vector-db, voice-clone, natural-language-processing, web-server, docker, mobile, javascript

## Member repositories
- Shaunwei/RealChar (main) score 48

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:40.085106+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:47:16.717693+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Shaunwei/RealChar (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:40.085106+00:00, sha 7a25b4da5637)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.