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A self-hosted, Iron Man style voice interface and HUD that lets you talk to the Hermes autonomous agent in your browser.

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    What it does
      Voice interface
      Holographic HUD
      Agent tool calls
    Tech stack
      Python FastAPI
      Whisper
      ElevenLabs
    Use cases
      Voice control agent
      Approve dangerous actions
      GPU offload transcription
    Audience
      Developers
      Self hosters

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What do people build with it?

USE CASE 1

Talk to a Hermes agent by voice and hear its reply streamed back sentence by sentence.

USE CASE 2

Watch live tool calls and approve or deny dangerous agent actions from the HUD.

USE CASE 3

Offload speech-to-text transcription to an NVIDIA GPU elsewhere on your LAN for speed.

USE CASE 4

Summon media panels like videos or images that the agent displays on the HUD.

What is it built with?

PythonFastAPIWhisperElevenLabs

How does it compare?

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LanguagePythonPythonPython
Setup difficultyhardmoderatemoderate
Complexity4/52/53/5
Audiencedevelopervibe coderdeveloper

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How do you get it running?

Difficulty · hard Time to first run · 1h+

Requires a running Hermes Agent installation, Python 3.11+, and an ElevenLabs API key, designed for LAN-only use.

Use freely for any purpose, including commercial use, as long as you keep the copyright notice.

So what is it?

This repository is a self-hosted voice assistant and browser-based control panel styled after the J.A.R.V.I.S. AI from Iron Man. It runs on top of Hermes Agent, an open-source autonomous agent made by NousResearch that can read and write files, run terminal commands, search the web, and remember conversations across sessions. The project wraps that agent in a voice interface with a glowing circular HUD that runs in any browser on your local network. The setup involves a Python server that handles two things: converting your speech to text locally using the Whisper model (no cloud needed for that part), and streaming the agent's text replies back as speech through ElevenLabs. When you click the ring and speak, your words appear on screen in real time, get sent to Hermes Agent, and the response plays back sentence by sentence as it is generated. A typical back-and-forth takes three to five seconds. The HUD around the ring is a full control panel. It shows live tool calls as the agent works, lets you stop a running agent action mid-stream, and pauses to ask for your approval before the agent runs anything considered dangerous. If the agent is speaking and you want to interrupt, clicking the ring again cuts it off and the agent tracks exactly what you heard. The HUD also embeds Hermes' built-in kanban board and session browser as interactive pop-up panels, and can summon media panels (videos, images) that animate in from a z-depth effect. A Machines panel shows CPU and GPU stats for your host and any connected worker machines. Speech-to-text runs locally on CPU by default. An optional sidecar lets you offload transcription to any NVIDIA GPU on your LAN for much faster results, with automatic fallback to local processing. The system is designed to stay on your LAN only. The Hermes API key never reaches the browser, all endpoints require a token you enter once per device, and secret-looking strings in your speech are redacted before anything reaches the cloud TTS service. The project is MIT licensed.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Help me set up Hermes Agent and this voice HUD on my own Mac mini or Linux box.
Prompt 2
Explain how the HUD keeps my Hermes API key and secrets from reaching the browser or cloud.
Prompt 3
Show me how to configure the optional GPU sidecar for faster local transcription.
Prompt 4
Walk me through the security model before I run this on my home network.

Frequently asked questions

What is jarvis_ai?

A self-hosted, Iron Man style voice interface and HUD that lets you talk to the Hermes autonomous agent in your browser.

What language is jarvis_ai written in?

Mainly Python. The stack also includes Python, FastAPI, Whisper.

What license does jarvis_ai use?

Use freely for any purpose, including commercial use, as long as you keep the copyright notice.

How hard is jarvis_ai to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated hard, with roughly 1h+ to a first successful run.

Who is jarvis_ai for?

Mainly developer.

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