AI assistants that run locally
These cards describe assistants and agent tools with a local or personal-device route, including chat, coding, and voice workflows. Their capabilities and requirements are not the same; see each card for details.
Sources: OpenClaw · VoiceStudio · Ollama
Projects to explore
- OpenClaw Chat with an AI assistant that runs on your own devices
OpenClaw is an open-source personal AI assistant that runs on your own computer and talks to you through the apps you already use — WhatsApp, iMessage, Discord, Telegram, Slack and twenty-plus others, with native apps for every platform.
- VoiceStudio Clone your voice and dub a video, all on your own computer
VoiceStudio is a desktop app for generating speech in a chosen voice without sending anything to a company: give it a clean reference recording, type your text, and it generates the audio, with separate workspaces for dubbing video and for designing a brand-new voice from a written description instead of a sample.
- Ollama Chat with AI models on your own computer
Ollama lets you choose an AI model and chat with it on your own computer.
- Voicebox Clone a voice, dictate anywhere, and give agents a voice
A local voice studio that covers both halves of speech: going out and coming in.
- Janus Run GGUF AI models on an AMD, Intel or Nvidia GPU behind a local API
Janus is a small local AI server written in Go: give it a GGUF model file (a compressed model format that runs on ordinary hardware) and it answers through an OpenAI-compatible API, the same request format OpenAI uses, so tools like Cursor or Cline can talk to it instead of a cloud service.
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