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

> Source: <https://github.com/Aleksandern/assistant-ai>
> Published: 2026-07-04 10:20:51+00:00

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