Offline Voice Assistants

Vellium is a desktop AI app for writers and people who want conversations with fictional characters. It combines multi-character roleplay with writing projects and lets you choose the model provider.

VoxInput is an open-source dictation tool for Linux and macOS that types spoken words into the active application. It's for people who want speech input across their desktop, including applications without their own dictation feature. On Linux, it also works in the system console.

Numen provides hands-free voice control and dictation for Linux. It is for people who want to operate their computer through speech, including users who cannot comfortably type or want to reduce hand strain.

Voxta is an AI companion for people who want a character they can talk to, assign tasks to or use in interactive stories. You choose its personality, voice and optional avatar.

WritHer is a voice dictation app for people who want to write in Windows desktop apps and manage everyday tasks by speaking. It works offline after the initial model downloads, without an account.

OpenVoiceOS is a voice assistant platform for people building smart speakers or adding voice control to their own devices. Its core is a fork of MycroftAI/mycroft-core, and most classic Mycroft skills remain compatible.

SpeakoFlow lets you dictate into other apps and ask an AI assistant for help without leaving your work. It's for people who want voice typing, spoken conversations and meeting notes with processing on their own computer.

py-xiaozhi is a Python AI voice client for people who want to try Xiaozhi conversations on a computer or build voice interaction into hardware projects. It builds on the xiaozhi-esp32 project and lets you use a desktop microphone and speakers without dedicated Xiaozhi hardware.

Miko is an AI companion for people who want to talk with an animated character on their Windows desktop. It pairs a local language model with a customizable 3D avatar and spoken replies.

Locally AI is a native assistant for people who want to use language and vision models on their own Apple devices. It handles text, images and spoken conversations without sending AI processing to a cloud service.

Soul-of-Waifu is an AI companion app for creating characters and roleplaying with them. A character carries the same personality and memories between conversations, RPG campaigns and a desktop companion.

MirrorMate puts a voice assistant in a physical mirror for people who want to ask questions, check daily information or chat without reaching for a phone. It remembers details from conversations to personalize later responses.

Chat with GPT is an unofficial ChatGPT client for people who want voice conversations and control over the chat interface. You can self-host the app, but its AI chat and speech recognition depend on OpenAI's cloud services.

Navigator is a self-hosted AI workspace for individuals and teams who want assistants to carry out tasks through connected tools. It combines chat with custom agents and reusable visual workflows.

Tel-Agent is an AI receptionist for businesses that want phone calls and customer messages handled by one agent on their own server. Recordings and transcripts stay on your machine, but its voice setup uses Deepgram, a cloud LLM and ElevenLabs, requiring internet access and your own API keys.

big-AGI is a browser-based AI workspace for developers, researchers and people who need to compare answers across models. It lets you examine separate responses and combine them while keeping control over model choice and reusable context.

HiKid is a desktop app for children in non-English-speaking countries to practice speaking and listening. Kids talk with an AI in English through a microphone, without needing to type.

Yoji is an AI desktop companion for people who want a conversational assistant that can also act on their computer. It combines a customizable personality with file handling and task automation.

Open-LLM-VTuber is an AI companion for people who want to talk with a customizable animated character. Local language and speech models let it work fully offline, with conversations staying on your device.

My Neuro is a local AI desktop companion for people who want to create a character with their own choice of appearance, voice and personality. It supports spoken and typed conversations, with character expressions and movements that respond to the dialogue.

Askimo is an AI desktop app for people who want to ask questions about their files and delegate work from the same place they chat. It supports local LLM backends and cloud providers, including Ollama, LM Studio, OpenAI, Claude and Gemini.

Conduit is a native mobile AI client for people who want access to their self-hosted models and agents from an iPhone or Android phone. It can connect through Open WebUI or directly to a model endpoint.

Home Assistant Assist lets you control your smart home through natural language. It's built into Home Assistant and can process voice entirely on your own hardware, keeping those voice commands local.

Leon is a personal AI assistant for people who want to automate tasks on their own computer or server. Its skills let you add actions suited to your needs.

Moshi is a voice AI model and dialogue framework for researchers and developers building spoken applications. It processes speech directly and can listen while it speaks, including information such as emotion and non-verbal cues.

Skales is an AI agent for people who want help with files, browsing, email and coding on their own devices. It can keep working on a goal after you close the chat and resume unfinished goals after a restart.

Step-Audio 2 is an audio AI model family for developers building voice assistants and applications that interpret recordings. It can reason about what people say and how they say it, as well as sounds beyond speech.

Home-LLM connects Home Assistant to language models for voice and chat control of smart devices. It's for Home Assistant users who want those requests handled on their own hardware.

AIRI is a self-hosted AI companion for people who want to talk with a virtual character and have it participate in games. Inspired by Neuro-sama, it supports real-time voice conversations and is in early development.

AIlice is an open source AI agent that runs on your own machine and handles tasks spanning research, software development and system administration. It's for people who want an assistant that can act on files, browse the web and execute code. Its Interactive Agents Call Tree architecture splits complex requests among agents created for the task, then combines their results.

Utsuwa is an AI companion for people who want a virtual character that remembers their conversations. It combines a 3D avatar with voice chat and optional relationship progression inspired by dating sims.

OpenEnsemble is a self-hosted AI assistant platform for people who want shared access on their own server, with a separate workspace for each user. Linux is the main installation target; macOS supports local development with different feature support. You can choose a single assistant or an ensemble of specialist agents using different models. It's open source under AGPL-3.0.

Willow is a voice assistant for people who want to control home automation through hardware and speech processing they own. It provides an alternative to Amazon Echo or Google Home on Espressif's ESP32-S3-BOX hardware family.

Scarf gives people running the Hermes AI agent a native interface for conversations, project work and host management. It requires an existing Hermes installation; the iPhone companion, ScarfGo, connects directly to your hosts over SSH.