Alice 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. Alice is more than a chatbot; she’s built to feel present, responsive, emotionally engaging, and deeply useful.

Key Features:

Local and Cloud use

Alice is designed to work with Cloud (OpenAI/OpenRouter) and Local LLMs (Ollama/LM Studio). Has built-in speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and embedding services. While the OpenAI cloud API is preferred and provides the best user experience, Alice can also operate fully locally (experimental).

Voice Interaction

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

Memory & Context

• 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

Vision & Visual Output

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

Computer Use Tools

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

Function Calling

• Web search (including Searxng support)
• 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

Wake Word Support

With the local STT model, you can now set a wake-up word (like "Hey, Siri").

• Alice will always listen, but only process requests when the wake word is spoken.
• Default mode is auto language detection, but you can also select a specific language in settings.

Dedicated Chrome Extension

• Ask Alice about your active Chrome tab
• Context menu for selected text on a web page
• Fact check this
• Summarize this
• Tell me more about it

Flexible Settings

Fully customizable settings interface:

• LLM provider selection between OpenAI, OpenRouter, Ollama, LM Studio
• Cloud or local TTS, STT, Embeddings
• Model choice & parameters (temperature, top_p, history, etc)
• Prompt and summarization tuning
• Audio/mic toggles & hotkeys
• Available tools & MCP configuration
• Google integrations