Voxta v1.9.3: Thinking Model Budgets, Adaptive Voice Detection & Agentic Tool Calling (Patreon)

Hello everyone,

This release is mostly about control and reliability. Local thinking models now have a proper reasoning budget, so you decide how much of the model's effort goes into thinking and how much is left for the reply. Voice activity detection was rebuilt to adapt to your room instead of relying on a fixed threshold. Claude Code gained a permissions system for tool calls, along with persistent memory and a native harness. Everything else is a long pass on the rough edges, and there were a fair number of them.

🧠 Local Thinking Models

Reasoning is now something you budget rather than something that happens to you.

A reasoning budget for local thinking models, so you set how much effort goes into thinking

Max thinking tokens are configured separately from reply tokens, so a long chain of thought no longer eats the reply

Summarization services can use thinking too, instead of being limited to direct answers

Qwen 3.8 formatting templates

📝 Prompting & Summarization

The prompt now specifies the reply budget, so the AI can pace itself and avoid cutting off the important part

Summarization handles edge cases, long messages and predictability better

Use /title in a chat to generate a title for it immediately

Affect prompting changed to reduce forced affects when they are not warranted

H3 prompt improvements for multi-character scenes

🎙️ Adaptive Voice Detection

New Adaptive Voice Activity Detection, built on NAudio 3, replacing the RMS Filter

Deepgram Flux TTS support

Deepgram SDK 7.0.0

Fixed the listening window sometimes closing too early

Fixed room noise delaying the end of a finished turn

Audio capture improved and bandwidth reduced

🤖 Claude Code

An agentic tool calling permissions system, so you approve what an agent is allowed to do

Persistent memory across sessions

A native harness

Tool calls and tool permissions are rendered in the UI

Tool calls are saved in the chat history

📦 Packaging & Export

Chats export as voxpak and include generated images

Voxpak dependencies support

Warns when importing a voxpak with missing dependencies

⚙️ Models & Backends

Updated llama.cpp (0.3.47) and ExLlamaV3 (1.4.2)

Fixed the llama.cpp flash attention toggle not working

Fixed llama.cpp receiving two BOS tokens on Llama 3 prompts

Check for API key validity in OpenAI, XAI, OpenRouter and Mistral

Anthropic refusals are reported instead of returning an empty reply

🔧 Key Fixes

A large share of this release went into fixing things that were quietly breaking.

Fixed Whisper Live crashing on incomplete JSON for longer utterances

Fixed Whisper Live hanging up after approximately 10 minutes without reconnecting

Fixed infinite loops in scenarios crashing the whole process

Fixed presets sometimes being overwritten silently

Fixed Voxta Cloud dropping previous context when affects are used

Fixed prosody increasing across follow-ups of the same affect

Fixed a broken Models Directory preventing the module configuration pages from loading

Fixed caching sometimes showing out of date resources after saving

Fixed Linux encrypted package export corruption

🖥️ Voxta UI

Search chats by title

In the chats list, see how many messages each chat contains

Reorder folders

Each LoRA row is grouped into its own panel

Preset modals and field ordering improvements

See and change the current preset from module configuration

Fixed models showing Not Downloaded when they are

Fixed installing a new service and pressing Save and Install warning about unsaved changes

📱 Voxta Mobile

Modals are now native bottom sheets with swipe to dismiss

The stage view can display two participants

🆓 Voxta Lite

New to Voxta? Lite is free and runs on Voxta Cloud, so you can create an account and start chatting without any local setup. If you like it, a subscription gets you the full version, with a large library of integrations, custom modules, and the option to run everything on your own hardware.

Thank you all, as always, for the continued support and feedback. Whether you are tuning how long your model thinks before it answers, talking in a room that is no longer fighting you, or handing an agent a task with clear limits on what it can touch, we hope you enjoy this release.

Voxta is available to subscribers at: https://portal.voxta.ai/