RunAnywhere.voice assembles speech-to-text, a language model, and text-to-speech into one
session that listens, thinks, and answers out loud. It owns the microphone while it runs.
Signature
vad unset ensures the catalogued default Silero VAD. downloadIfNeeded defaults to
true, so any of the three models that is missing is fetched first.
VoiceSession
say speaks a line without waiting for the user, which is how you greet someone.
interrupt cuts off whatever is being spoken.
Always close() the session. It holds the microphone.
Turn handling
Raise
interruption.minDurationMs in a noisy room, or a cough cuts the model off.
Steering the replies
maxOutputTokens lower than you would for a chat interface.
A complete ViewModel
onCleared is what stops the microphone when the screen goes away.
Permission
RECORD_AUDIO has to be granted at runtime before start():