Show HN: Every Claw Deserves a Face
Nyxclaw is an open-source project that gives AI agents a real-time face and voice. It runs locally without a GPU, offers self-hosted servers with end-to-end encryption, two voice pipelines (OpenAI Realtime and local CPU stack), and supports ARKit blendshapes at 30 FPS.
Nyxclaw — Every claw deserves a face
Every claw
deserves a face.
Give any AI agent a real-time face and voice. Open source, runs on your machine, no GPU required.
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See it in action
Your server. Your data.
NyxClaw server runs on your machine, right alongside your claw, end-to-end encrypted, and cryptographically paired. No cloud, no relay, no telemetry.
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Ed25519 Auth
Device pairing via cryptographic challenge. No passwords over the wire.
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End-to-end WSS
Auto-provisioned Cloudflare Tunnel. No port forwarding or certs.
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QR Pairing
Scan to connect. One device at a time. Treat the code like a password.
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Self-hosted
Docker or install script. Your machine, your data, your rules.
Two voice pipelines
Two reference pipelines out of the box — OpenAI Realtime for the cloud voice quality, local CPU stack for total privacy. Swap or extend either one.
OpenAI Voice
▸ Realtime API for STT + TTS
▸ Best voice quality
▸ ~1 GB RAM, 1 core
▸ Requires API key
🖥️ Local Voice CPU
▸ faster-whisper + Silero VAD
▸ Piper VITS ONNX TTS
▸ ~2 GB RAM, 2 cores
▸ No API keys. No cloud. No GPU.
Both pipelines run Wav2Arkit ONNX on CPU — 52 ARKit blendshapes at 30 FPS.
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Supported claws
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