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Show HN: AssistantAI – Real-Time Conversation Hints and Screenshot Analysis

A developer released AssistantAI, an open-source desktop AI assistant that captures audio from apps like Zoom and Teams, generates context-aware responses using attached documents, and analyzes screenshots via a web interface. Built with Python, it uses ScreenCaptureKit, Silero VAD, and whisper.cpp for low-latency speech processing.

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Show HN: AssistantAI – Real-Time Conversation Hints and Screenshot Analysis
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A real-time desktop AI assistant.

AssistantAI listens to a selected application (Zoom, Teams, Telegram, browsers, and other apps), detects spoken conversations, generates context-aware responses using an attached document and can analyze screenshots through its built-in web interface.

Built as a personal engineering project to explore low-latency desktop AI, speech processing, context-aware conversations and screenshot analysis.

  • Application-specific audio capture using ScreenCaptureKit
  • Voice activity detection (Silero VAD)
  • Local speech recognition with whisper.cpp
  • Context-aware conversations using an attached document
  • Screenshot capture and AI analysis
  • Local conversation history
  • Remote web interface

The current implementation is written in Python.

Useful starting points:

  • Python setup: bash python/run/setup_python_env.sh

  • Python docs: python/README.md

  • Audio capture research: docs/modules/audio-capture-research.md

Additional implementation details, installation instructions, and OpenAI configuration are available in python/README.md.

Future versions may include additional components and languages as the project evolves.

  • Additional LLM backends (Ollama, llama.cpp)
  • Additional document formats
  • Improved screenshot analysis
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