LOCAL AI COMPANION · DESKTOP APP
Alice
A local desktop companion that brings chat, voice and personality into one interface.
01 / THE PROBLEM
The design challenge.
Bring local conversation and voice into a desktop app that can coexist with games and give the user clear control over listening and memory.
02 / THE APPROACH
How it comes together.
The current Python desktop app uses Ollama for conversation and CPU-based Piper for spoken replies. Game-priority processing, explicit microphone controls and editable personality settings put the runtime behavior in the user’s hands.
- Streaming text chat, recent recall and private sessions.
- Hands-free and push-to-talk voice input with visible controls.
- Adjustable spoken replies, model selection and character settings.
03 / CURRENT STATE
A clear view of the work.
A working local development app. Vision remains a future milestone; legacy VALL-E/XTTS experiments are separate from the current voice engine.