Alice smart desktop AI assistant

Say "Hi" to Alice 👋 — your open-source AI companion designed to live on your desktop.

Alice brings together voice interaction, intelligent context awareness, powerful tooling, and a friendly personality to assist you with everything from daily tasks to deeper creative work. She’s more than a chatbot — she’s built to feel present, responsive, emotionally engaging, and deeply useful.

• Fast, VAD-powered voice recognition (via gpt-4o-transcribe or whisper-large-v3)
• Natural-sounding responses with OpenAI TTS
• Interruptible speech and streaming response cancellation for smoother flow

• Thoughts: Short-term context stored in Hnswlib vector DB
• Memories: Structured long-term facts in local DB
• Summarization: Compact message history into context prompts
• Emotion awareness: Summaries include mood estimation for more human responses

• Screenshot interpretation using Vision API
• Image generation using gpt-image-1
• Animated video states (standby / speaking / thinking)

Alice can now interact with your local system with user-approved permissions:

• 📂 File system browsing (e.g. listing folders)

• 💻 Shell command execution (ls, mv, mkdir, etc)

• 🔐 Granular command approvals:

  • One-time
  • Session-based
  • Permanent (revocable)

• 🔧 Settings tab "Permissions" lets you review and manage all approved commands

• Web search
• Google Calendar & Gmail integration
• Torrent search & download (via Jackett + qBittorrent)
• Time & date awareness
• Clipboard management
• Task scheduler (reminders and command execution)
• Open applications & URLs
• Image generation
• MCP server support

Fully customizable settings interface:

• Model choice & parameters (temperature, top_p, history, etc)
• Prompt and summarization tuning
• Audio/mic toggles & hotkeys
• Available tools & MCP configuration
• Google integrations

👉 Download the latest release

Follow the Setup Instructions to configure your API keys and environment.

• Frontend: Vue.js, TailwindCSS
• Desktop Shell: Electron
• State Management: Pinia
• AI APIs: OpenAI, Groq
• Embeddings: Hnswlib
• Voice: VAD (Web)
• Animation: Kling Pro

Other tools:

• Jackett — Torrent aggregator
• qBittorrent — Torrent client

Follow setup instructions to obtain required API credentials.

Optionally, create an app-config.json file in the root directory for Google integration:

Install the output from the release/ directory.

• 🏗️ ArchLinux AUR Package

Ideas, bug reports, feature requests — all welcome! Open an issue or PR, or just drop by to share your thoughts. Your input helps shape Alice into something wonderful 💚