LLM provider

Ollama

The Ollama chat-provider addon connects Neural Companion to models served by a local Ollama installation while preserving the normal conversation and addon pipeline.

Requirements

  • A working Neural Companion installation.
  • Ollama installed and running with a model available.
  • The Ollama chat-provider addon enabled in Neural Companion.

Configuration

  1. Start Ollama and make the intended chat model available.
  2. Select Ollama as the chat provider in Neural Companion and choose the model exposed by the server.
  3. Test text chat before adding speech, avatars, or sensory addons.

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Feature

Local AI companion

Connect Neural Companion to local chat providers such as LM Studio or Ollama while keeping its speech, memory, avatar, visual-reply, and addon workflows available.

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Feature

Voice AI companion

Neural Companion combines speech input with selectable text-to-speech addons, including Chatterbox, Gemini TTS Preview, PocketTTS, and other addon-provided backends.

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Feature

Persistent companion memory

Continue longer conversations with continuity summaries and a versioned long-term memory archive that supports semantic retrieval, linked image recall, and readable exports.

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