apeatling

ollama-voice-mac

# ollama-voice-mac A completely offline voice assistant using Mistral 7b via Ollama and Whisper speech recognition models. This builds on the [excellent work of maudoin](https://github.com/maudoin/ollama-voice) by adding Mac compatibility with various improvements. https://github.com/apeatling/ollama-voice-mac/assets/1464705/996abeb7-7e99-451b-8d3b-feb3fecbb82e ## Installing and running 1. Install [Ollama](https://ollama.ai) on your Mac. 2. Download the Mistral 7b model using the `ollama pull mistral` command. 3. Download an [OpenAI Whisper Model](https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/63#discussioncomment-3798552) (base.en works fine). 4. Clone this repo somewhere. 5. Place the Whisper model in a /whisper directory in the repo root folder. 6. Make sure you have [Python](https://www.python.org/downloads/macos/) and [Pip](https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installation/) installed. 7. For Apple silicon support of the PyAudio library you'll need to install [Homebrew](https://brew.sh) and run `brew install portaudio`. 8. Run `pip install -r requirements.txt` to install. 9. Run `python assistant.py` to start the assistant. ## Improving the voice You can improve the quality of the voice by downloading a higher quality version. These instructions work on MacOS 14 Sonoma: 1. In System Settings select Accessibility > Spoken Content 2. Select System Voice and Manage Voices... 3. For English find "Zoe (Premium)" and download it. 4. Select Zoe (Premium) as your System voice. ## Other languages You can set up support for other languages by editing `assistant.yaml`. Be sure to download a different Whisper model in your language and change the default `modelPath`.