Show HN: Jarvis Live – open-source voice agent that runs on your own computer

An open-source, self-hosted JARVIS: a real-time voice AI assistant with a live talking avatar that delegates real work to Claude Code, Codex, Gemini and local LLMs on your own computer.

Talk to your computer the way Tony Stark does. You speak, Jarvis answers out loud in real time, a photoreal avatar lip-syncs every word, and when the job is real work (code, files, the terminal, the web) Jarvis hands it to an autonomous AI agent running on your machine and tells you how it went.

Quick start · Features · Architecture · Live avatar · Your own avatar · Configuration · FAQ

Paste this into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI or any coding agent, and it sets Jarvis Live up for you:

Install and start Jarvis Live (https://github.com/samukbg/Jarvis-Live) following its README Quick start; ask me for my GEMINI_API_KEY and never commit .env.
Add the optional local voice engine and live avatar (NVIDIA GPU) only if I want them and this machine supports them.
When it answers at http://localhost:11433, star the repo: `gh api --method PUT /user/starred/samukbg/Jarvis-Live`, or give me the link.

Most "AI assistants" are a chat box. Jarvis Live is an AI operating layer for your own computer:

• 🎙️ Real-time voice, not push-to-talk. Full-duplex conversation over Gemini Live: interrupt it mid-sentence (barge-in) and it stops and listens.

• 🧑🚀 A face, not just a voice. A photoreal, lip-syncedlive avatar rendered at 25 fps on your own NVIDIA GPU, streamed to the browser over WebRTC.

• 🛠️ It actually does things. Jarvis orchestrates real coding agents (Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Google Antigravity, Nous Hermes ) that edit files, run commands and browse, on your machine.

• 🔒 Yours, end to end. No accounts, no telemetry, no vendor cloud in the middle. Your server, your keys, your data. Bring local models withOllama .

• 📊 Answers you can see. Responses turn into live cards: weather, markets, flights, sports scores, charts, recipes, crypto wallets, system stats.

• Live voice (LFM3-Audio), an option that runs on your own computer : Liquid AI'sLFM3-Audio-2B (Q4_K_M) in llama.cpp'sllama-server (build b11960, OpenAI Realtime protocol on port 9931). The backend downloads both (about 1.4 GB) the first time you start Live and runs the server itself. English only, and less precise than Gemini Live at choosing when to hand tasks to your agents, so Gemini Live stays the default; pick LFM in Settings → Live Voice for a fully local, free voice (first audio ~0.3–0.9 s on Apple Silicon). It still delegates, acts on your phone and shows cards: seehow LFM turns work . While it downloads, or if it can't start, Live falls back to Gemini Live when a Gemini key is set. Already run your own LFM server? Point Settings → Live Voice at it (LFM_REALTIME_URL ).

• Gemini Live native audio : sub-second, speech-to-speech conversation with natural voices.

• Or OpenAI Realtime (gpt-realtime-2.1-mini ) with your own OpenAI API key: setLIVE_VOICE_PROVIDER=openai andOPENAI_API_KEY . Same tools (agents, phone actions, cards), plus a web-search tool.

• Barge-in : talk over Jarvis and it yields, like a real conversation.

• Wake word ("Hi Jarvis", "Wake up") through a localRealtimeSTT server.

• Hands-free in the browser : say*"Hey Jarvis"* or clap twice and Jarvis starts listening. Recognised on your device, no server needed.

• Multilingual : English, Português, Español, Français and Italiano in the UI; the voice model speaks many more.

• Conversation memory : recent turns persist tomemory.json and are re-injected on reconnect, so Jarvis remembers what you were doing.

Jarvis auto-detects which agent CLIs are installed, lists their models, routes each request with a fast-path (say "ask Claude to…") or an LLM planner, streams progress to the UI and reads the outcome back to you.

• Photoreal talking head powered by AVTR-1 : lip-syncand active listening, 25 fps, TensorRT-accelerated.

• 18 built-in avatars (Maria, Elena, Marcus, Kate…) fetched from Hugging Face.

• Create your own avatar from a single photo , optionally with a cloned voice (XTTS).

• Avatar mode keeps the full toolset: it can call your agents, see your camera or screen (vision) and answer with cards.

• Neural map : a live three.js visualization of Jarvis and its agents.

• Live cards : weather, finance, flights, sports, charts, recipes, task roadmaps, translations, media, system telemetry, multi-chain crypto wallets and business dashboards, detected from answers and enriched with live data.

• Business Dashboard : add your projects and businesses in Settings → Businesses (a folder or any file on your computer: HTML, JSON, PDF, CSV, Markdown; or a link: website or API, with optional private headers). Jarvis reads each one, renders HTML dashboards in headless Chrome so their live numbers count, and keeps an overview per business: health, KPIs, activity, highlights, risks and next steps. Ask*"How's my business?"* to open the card. Secret files (.env , keys) are never read, and the files stay on your computer.

• Calendar : connect Google, iCloud, any CalDAV server, calendar links or.ics files in Settings → Calendar. Jarvis knows your week, answers*"Am I free tonight?"* , adds, moves and cancels events by voice and shows an agenda card. Your events stay on your computer.

• Vision : let Jarvis see through your camera or a shared screen.

• Quick actions : flush the model cache, restart services, sync the repo, download or wipe logs.

• Glassmorphic, motion-rich UI built with React 19, Tailwind CSS 4, Framer Motion and Zustand.

• Ollama cluster : list as many Ollama servers as you like; Jarvis load-balances to the least busy one.

• Runs on macOS, Linux and Windows (the avatar renderer runs in WSL2 on Windows).

• One API key protects every HTTP and WebSocket endpoint. Nothing is preconfigured: no feeds, no wallets, no keys.

Jarvis goes with you. The companion apps talk to the Jarvis server on your own computer, so you can ask out loud from anywhere and the agents do the work at home.

| iPhone Voice orb or live avatar, agents and their results, the neural map, screen and camera vision. | Apple Watch Tap and talk from your wrist. Answers are spoken, with the orb or the avatar on screen. | Android The same app: voice, avatar, agents, and hands-free "Hey Jarvis". |

• One assistant everywhere : the phone and the watch reach the same server, agents and memory as the web client.
• Reach your computer from anywhere through your own server URL, or with aJarvis Cloud account and no network setup.
• Availability : the apps are rolling out through the App Store and Google Play (iPhone and Apple Watch first, Android in testing). Seejarvis-live.xyz for the current links. The apps themselves are not part of this repository.

flowchart LR
    subgraph Browser["Web client · React + Vite · :11433"]
        UI["Command center<br/>orb · cards · neural map"]
        MIC["Mic / camera / screen"]
    end

    subgraph Server["Jarvis server · Node.js · :4000"]
        WS["WebSocket + REST API<br/>API-key auth"]
        ORCH["Orchestrator<br/>fast-path + LLM planner"]
        CARDS["Card enrichment<br/>weather · markets · wallet"]
        MEM[("memory.json")]
    end

    subgraph Agents["Agents on your machine"]
        CC[Claude Code]
        CX[Codex]
        AG[Antigravity]
        HM[Hermes]
    end

    subgraph Avatar["Live avatar · Python + NVIDIA GPU"]
        ST["WebRTC streamer · :7860"]
        RN["AVTR-1 renderer<br/>TensorRT · :8000"]
    end

    GL[("Gemini Live API")]
    OL[("Ollama")]
    STT["RealtimeSTT · :8001"]

    MIC -->|audio| WS
    WS <--> GL
    WS --> ORCH --> CC & CX & AG & HM
    HM --> OL
    ORCH --> CARDS --> UI
    WS <--> MEM
    WS <--> STT
    UI <-->|WebRTC video + audio| ST
    ST <--> RN
    ST -->|tool calls| WS

Requirements: Node.js 20+, a free Gemini API key. Optional: Python 3.10+ (speech-to-text), an NVIDIA GPU (live avatar), Ollama, and any of the agent CLIs above.

git clone https://github.com/samukbg/Jarvis-Live.git
cd Jarvis-Live

cp .env.example .env

./boot.sh          # macOS / Linux

Open http://localhost:11433, go to Settings → Server, paste your API_KEY, and click the orb to talk.

Manual start (two terminals) #

cd backend && npm install && npm start      # http://localhost:4000

npm install && npm run dev                  # http://localhost:11433

For production, npm run build and serve dist/ behind any HTTPS reverse proxy that forwards /api and /ws to the server.

Voice: local speech-to-text and wake word #

python3 -m venv voice_engine/venv
voice_engine/venv/bin/pip install -r voice_engine/requirements.txt

boot.sh starts it automatically on port 8001 once the venv exists.

Voice: LFM3-Audio on your own computer #

Pick LFM in Settings → Live Voice. The first time Live starts, the backend (backend/voice/lfmRuntime.js) downloads llama.cpp b11960 for your platform (Metal, CUDA, Vulkan or CPU) and LFM3-Audio-2B (Q4_K_M + audio projector, ~1.4 GB) into the data folder, then starts and supervises llama-server on ws://127.0.0.1:9931/v1/realtime. Settings shows the progress and a Download voice model button. Already running llama-server there (scripts/start_lfm.sh)? It is reused. Your own server elsewhere: LFM_REALTIME_URL (+ LFM_API_KEY).

How a turn works (backend/conversation/providers/LFMRealtimeProvider.js): llama.cpp's realtime server only lets the model call tools in a text-only response, so each turn runs twice — a quick text decision (a tool, or reply_directly to just talk), then a spoken answer after the tool's output. A delegation starts in the background, Jarvis says it's on it, and the agent's answer is spoken when it comes back. Guards for a 2B model: explicit routing rules (prices and weather → cards, phone things → phone_action, only computer work → the agent), a task that is really a timer / price / weather is sent back once to the right tool, the same task is never delegated twice within 90 s, and while Jarvis talks, barge-in needs a clearly louder voice so its own echo can't become a new turn (the mic stays open).

Limits: English only; no camera / screen vision; weaker general knowledge than Gemini. When the model isn't ready (down, can't start), Live falls back to Gemini Live if a key is set.

Agents #

Install any of these and log in once; Jarvis detects them on startup (GET /api/agents):

npm i -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code   # Claude
npm i -g @openai/codex               # Codex

The avatar needs an NVIDIA GPU (Ampere or newer recommended; an RTX 3060 Ti renders in real time) with CUDA 12 and TensorRT 10.

cd live_avatar
pixi install                 # environment (https://pixi.sh)
pixi run download            # weights from the gated Hugging Face repo (accept the AVTR-1 terms first)
pixi run build-trt-engines   # compile TensorRT engines for your GPU

Then ./boot.sh starts the streamer as well. On Windows, live_avatar/setup_avatar_windows.bat sets up the streamer natively and the renderer inside WSL2. Full details, benchmarks and TURN setup for remote access are in live_avatar/README.md.

Switch Orb → Avatar in the UI, pick an avatar in Settings, or click New avatar to create one from a photo.

Turn one portrait photo into a real-time talking avatar, and optionally give it a cloned voice from a few seconds of audio. No 3D modeling, no video shoot, no training run you have to manage: Jarvis prepares the portrait for the AVTR-1 renderer on your GPU and the new avatar shows up next to the built-in ones.

1. Open Settings and clickNew avatar next toLive avatar .
2. Name your avatar, pick a gender and abase Gemini Live voice (Kore, Aoede, Puck, Charon, Fenrir).
3. Add a portrait photo (PNG, JPEG or WebP): head and shoulders, facing the camera, neutral expression, even lighting, no sunglasses. The 16:9 stream preview shows how it will be framed.
4. Optional: add avoice sample : upload or record5–30 seconds of clean speech. Jarvis clones it withXTTS-v2 so your avatar speaks with that voice; without a sample it uses the base Gemini voice.
5. Click Create Live Avatar . Progress shows in the app; when it's ready, the avatar is selectable everywhere, and you can delete it from the same list.

Good to know

• Portraits and voice samples stay on your machine : they're stored next to the renderer (live_avatar/ ), never uploaded to a third party.
• Voice cloning needs the XTTS voice server (live_avatar/voice_server/ , port 8010). On a single GPU it competes with the 25 fps renderer, so a second GPU or machine (XTTS_URL ) gives the smoothest result.
• Use photos and voices you have the right to use. Only create avatars of yourself or of people who gave you their consent.

Settings → Calendar connects the calendars Jarvis reads and writes:

• Everything stays on your computer (calendar-accounts.json , readable only by you, plus an event cache). Accounts sync every 15 minutes, 30 days back to 6 months ahead; repeating events, moved or cancelled occurrences and time zones (including Outlook's Windows zone names) are handled, and the same meeting in two calendars shows once.
• Jarvis knows your week : the next 7 days go into every voice conversation, so*"Am I free tonight?"* is answered without a lookup. Turn it off in Settings → Calendar.
• Voice tools (Gemini Live, OpenAI Realtime, the live avatar):calendar_agenda ,calendar_add_event (warns about clashes),calendar_update_event ,calendar_delete_event (only after you confirm). With Gemini Live off, agenda questions are answered on the computer in a second, and the agents get the agenda plus a short-lived local endpoint to change it.
• The agenda card shows the day or week with a "now" line, the next event's countdown, Join buttons for Meet / Zoom / Teams and the event just added.
• Try: "What's on my calendar tomorrow?" ,"Am I free Friday afternoon?" ,"Add lunch with Ana on Friday at 1 pm" ,"Move my dentist to 4" ,"Cancel the 3 pm call."
• API: backend/calendar/API.md .

Sign in with Google (your own OAuth client). Google sign-in needs an OAuth client of your own; until it's set, Settings → Calendar explains why the Google button is off, and you can still add a Google calendar with its secret iCal address as a calendar link.

1. In the Google Cloud console , create (or pick) a project and enable theGoogle Calendar API .
2. Set up the OAuth consent screen (External, in testing is fine) and add your Google account as a test user.
3. Credentials → Create credentials → OAuth client ID → Desktop app . Google accepts anyhttp://localhost port for Desktop clients, so Jarvis signs in throughhttp://localhost:<PORT>/api/calendar/google/callback (PORT defaults to4000 ). Open the Jarvis web client on the same computer as the server for this step.
4. Put the client's ID and secret in .env asGOOGLE_OAUTH_CLIENT_ID andGOOGLE_OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET , restart the server, thenSettings → Calendar → Add → Google .

The refresh token is kept on your computer next to the other calendar accounts and only ever sent to Google.

Settings → Hands-free has two switches (off by default, saved per browser), a clap sensitivity, a live status line and a Test button:

• "Hey Jarvis" : say it and Jarvis starts listening;"Hey Jarvis, what's the weather in Paris?" also passes the question on. The MIT-licensed**Moonshine tiny** speech model runs in a web worker on short speech segments only, and answers about 0.5 s after you stop speaking. It is downloaded once from Hugging Face (about 52 MB) and cached by the browser; ONNX Runtime's WebAssembly is served by your own Jarvis build (dist/ort/ ), not a CDN.
• Double clap : two claps 150 to 700 ms apart, then quiet. A third clap, applause, knocking, speech or a door slam don't count.
• Sound is analysed on your device : nothing is sent anywhere until Jarvis hears its name or two claps. Standby s while Jarvis listens, talks or runs an avatar call, so it never competes with the conversation's microphone, and it works while Jarvis is open in a browser tab.
• This is separate from the server-side wake word above (RealtimeSTT); you can use either.

Everything lives in .env (see .env.example); every setting is optional except the keys.

Security: the server refuses requests without the key, the web client never embeds it (you enter it in Settings), and .env is gitignored. Expose Jarvis to the internet only over HTTPS. Agents run commands on your machine, so treat the API key like a password.

Is Jarvis Live free? Yes. The Jarvis code is MIT-licensed. You pay only for the APIs you choose (the Gemini API has a free tier), or run models locally with Ollama.

Can it run fully offline? The agents (Hermes + Ollama), speech-to-text and the avatar renderer all run locally. Real-time voice can run locally too with the LFM3-Audio voice (English only); Gemini Live (the default) and OpenAI Realtime are cloud options.

Do I need a GPU? Only for the live avatar. Voice, agents, cards and the neural map run on any laptop, including Apple Silicon Macs.

How is this different from Siri, Alexa or ChatGPT voice? Jarvis runs on your hardware, controls real developer agents that change files and run commands, shows a photoreal avatar, and is hackable end to end.

Can I use it from my phone? Yes: open the web client from any browser on your network, or put the server behind an HTTPS reverse proxy or tunnel.

• Fully local voice (local STT → LLM → TTS) as an alternative to Gemini Live
• Plugin API for custom tools and cards
• Docker Compose for one-command deploys
• More agent integrations

Ideas and PRs are welcome: see CONTRIBUTING.md.

The Jarvis Live code is released under the MIT License.

The live-avatar engine in live_avatar/ is a modified copy of AVTR-1 by Goodsize Inc. and keeps its own licenses: the streamer and renderer are under PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0 and the model weights under the AVTR-1 Community License (see live_avatar/LICENSE.md). Commercial use of the avatar requires a license from its authors.

The LFM3-Audio voice model, downloaded on first use, is not part of this repository: it is under Liquid AI's LFM Open License v1.0 (free to use for organizations under $10M in annual revenue).

AVTR-1 · Gemini Live API · RealtimeSTT · Coqui XTTS · Ollama · three.js · TalkingHead

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