Voice Assistant – Local AI Chat with Speech

A simple and privacy-friendly voice assistant that runs entirely on your local machine. It uses powerful open-source tools for speech recognition, text-to-speech, and AI conversation — with no cloud dependencies.

🧩 Features

• 🎙️ Voice input using OpenAI Whisper
• 🧠 Text generation using local LLMs via Ollama
• 🔊 Text-to-Speech with Coqui.ai
• 🔐 100% local — no data leaves your machine

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🚀 Quick Start

1. Install dependencies

Make sure Python 3.8+ is installed.

pip install -r requirements.txt

You’ll also need:

• Ollama for local LLMs

• ffmpeg and sox (check your system’s package manager)

2. Start Ollama with a model(choose any model you like -> https://ollama.com/search)

ollama run gemma3

3. Activate virtual environment in terminal

venv\Scripts\activate

4. Run the assistant

python main.py