converse - Real-Time Two-Way Voice Conversation

Full-duplex voice conversation engine for personas. Not chatbot request-response — real conversation with interruptions, backchannels, emotional state, humming, and natural idle behaviors.

Architecture

ConversationOrchestrator
├── Listener  (VAD + Whisper STT, barge-in detection)
├── Thinker   (EmbrySPARTAIntern + memory + mood + steering)
├── Speaker   (PersonaPlex TTS with register switching)
├── Idler     (humming, self-talk, backchannels, sighs)
├── Emotion   (state machine with bridge attribute modifiers)
├── Mixer     (audio ducking: speech > humming > background)
└── Surface   (Discord / KDE PipeWire / Horus WebRTC)