I started skeptical. A voice AI with cloned voices, real-time, no app install — running on free API tiers? Seemed overly ambitious. But a few hours later, I had a working app. Here's the full breakdown. TL;DR Clone Talking is a web app for real-time voice conversations with AI persona clones. Open source. Runs on free API tiers. GitHub: https://github.com/MatheusSimonaci/clone-talking Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdw1FfRfmJc The Challenge I wanted to build something ambitious: a system where you could talk to AI clones of anyone and get responses in their actual voice. Requirements: Real-time voice processing Sub-second latency No app installation needed Ethical voice cloning Works with free/cheap API tiers Traditionally, this would take days of debugging WebSocket issues, API rate limiting, and voice synthesis integration. I wanted to see how fast it could actually be done.…