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7/12/2026
Building a local voice assistant for macOS with Whisper and Ollama

Building a local voice assistant for macOS with Whisper and Ollama

Original: I Control My Mac with Voice — Say Hey Jarvis and It Does Everything

Short summary

A developer built a local voice assistant for macOS that responds to 'Hey Jarvis' and routes commands through Whisper (offline STT), intent classification, and Ollama to execute 45 AI tool actions including content generation, research, email drafting, and code review. The pipeline supports command chaining, cross-conversation memory, and Hindi plus English. Code is available on GitHub.

  • •Voice assistant uses offline Whisper for STT and Ollama for local LLM inference
  • •Supports 45 commands including content generation, research, code review, and file search
  • •Open-source with Hindi+English support and command chaining

Generated with AI, which can make mistakes.

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