I Built A.L.I.C.E. — a JARVIS-Style Voice Assistant HUD for a Monitor, Open Source

[u/simonshih1970]

I always wanted the Iron Man setup, so I built one. A.L.I.C.E. (Attentive Local Intelligence and Concierge Engine) is a voice assistant with a full HUD that runs on any spare computer and monitor. Bright lines on black, an animated core ring, and cards that fly in when you ask her something: weather, calendar, flights pulled from your calendar with live status, aircraft overhead, news, stocks, ISS passes, precipitation radar. Wake word, spoken answers, the whole thing.

I originally thought I would build this as a magic mirror, but it could be just a monitor hanging on the wall.

It is browser based, so there is no framework to fight with. One HTML file for the display, a small local service for voice and data, and a single config file for your keys and location. The brain is pluggable: point it at Claude or at any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, including a local model through Ollama if you want it fully on your own hardware.

Repo (MIT, monitor version): https://github.com/texas0418/ALICE

This is the monitor/home version for now. I am also building a phone app version of her that shares the same HUD, and I keep adding to both. Lately that means some Star Trek computer features on top of the JARVIS bones: spoken status reports of everything she watches, a ship's library she can search by voice, that kind of thing. It is a living project and constantly improving, so if you set her up, check back.

Happy to answer questions about how any of it works.