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

A developer built a voice assistant named 'Jarvis' that controls 45 AI tools on a Mac, including content generation, research, email drafting, focus mode, code review, and file search. The system uses offline speech recognition via Whisper, intent classification, and routing to Ollama for AI processing, with text-to-speech output.

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I built a voice assistant that controls 45 AI tools. I say "Hey Jarvis" and it executes.

Command Action
"generate content" Creates YouTube scripts for 9 channels
"research quantum computing" Deep research via Tavily + AI
"write email about meeting" Drafts email, copies to clipboard
"start focus" Starts Pomodoro + blocks apps
"code review" Reviews git diff with AI
"summarize" Summarizes clipboard content
"find file tax PDF" Natural language file search 
Mic → Whisper (offline) → Intent Classify → Router → Ollama → say (TTS)
brew install portaudio
pip install SpeechRecognition pyaudio openai-whisper
python voice_commander_pro.py
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