VIMA v1.0.0 — Initial Release

VIMA v1.0.0 — Initial Release

Voice Intelligent Machine Assistant — a fully local, microservices-based voice AI assistant that runs entirely on your machine (no API costs, no cloud dependency) with an optional Gemini Flash fast-path when you need lower latency.

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What's included

Core voice pipeline

• Speech-to-text via faster-whisper (Python FastAPI service) — supports tiny, base, small, medium, large models
• LLM reasoning — defaults to Gemini Flash when online, silently falls back to local Ollama when offline
• Text-to-speech via edge-tts (Python FastAPI service)
• End-to-end latency: ~3–5s with Gemini Flash, ~15–17s fully local on CPU (i7 8th gen, no GPU)

Tools the assistant can run

Tool	Example command
youtubeOpen	"play Believer"
youtubeSearch	"search rickroll on YouTube"
playMusic	"play some lofi on Spotify"
sendEmail	"email mom saying I'll be late"
sendMessage	"WhatsApp dad I'm on my way"
openManhwa	"read Solo Leveling"

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Known limitations / future improvements

• py-server/core/whisper.py hardcodes device="cpu" — change to env var for GPU support
• WhatsApp via Baileys requires scanning a QR code on first run
• Spotify tool requires a Premium account for full playback control

Full Changelog: v1.0.0...v1.0.0