Autonomous Linked Intelligent Compute Engine
A.L.I.C.E.
A hands-free, 100% local voice assistant for Ollama — the human interface of a private compute engine, designed for secure remote access later.
A.L.I.C.E. (Autonomous Linked Intelligent Compute Engine) is a simple, hands-free, 100% locally running voice assistant that turns spoken language into a conversation with any Ollama model. No cloud, no accounts, no audio leaving the machine — speech-to-text, reasoning, and text-to-speech all happen locally.
How It Works
The voice interface is the primary human interaction layer, and it follows a clean, efficient pipeline:
- Microphone — audio capture
- openwakeword — wakeword detection
- webrtcvad — silence detection
- faster-whisper — transcription
- Ollama LLM — reasoning
- Piper TTS — speech output
Every stage is a standard, well-understood tool with a clean boundary. That separation of concerns is deliberate — it’s what makes the next step cheap.
Local Today, Secure Remote Tomorrow
By starting fully local with a modular design, transitioning A.L.I.C.E. to a remotely accessible private server later will require minimal refactoring. The assistant already supports any Ollama model, custom prompts, and easy configuration — a solid foundation for a more powerful, linked intelligent system.
The result is a usable, private voice companion today, laying the groundwork for a true Autonomous Linked Intelligent Compute Engine that maintains strong security and flexibility for the future.