Assistant and voice

💬 Assistant and voice

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Ask Claupet by typing or out loud, hear the answer and have it give you a hand with your computer. Here's who answers each question and how to save tokens.

On this page: Talk to Claupet · What you can ask · Who answers · Local model · Actions on your computer · Voice · Keys

Important

Questions that go to the cloud go through Claude Code with the account you choose, and count against your plan like any message. What the app answers on its own or with the local model costs no tokens.

How to talk to Claupet

There are three places, and all three share the same Quick conversation:

Where	How
The pet's bubble	Turn on Settings › Assistant › Chat with the pet and click the pet, or press Ctrl+Alt+Space (Windows).
The island	The Chat tab (see Notifications and the island).
Claupet Console	Chat, with conversations that get saved (see Claupet Console).

The pet answers briefly, in its own way and with its own personality; the island and the Console give fuller answers.

What you can ask it

• Questions: anything you like. It can search and read web pages to answer you.
• Your usage: "how much Claude do I have left?".
• Weather, time, math and conversions: "is it going to rain tomorrow?", "15% of 200", "10 km in miles".
• A file: drop it on the pet or the island and it summarizes it for you.
• Things on your computer: volume, music, wallpaper, dark mode, screenshots, notes, reminders… (see Actions on your computer).
• Big jobs: what it can't do by itself, it hands to Claude Code. It asks "Open Claude Code in … with this task?" and opens a session with that request.

Tip

Offline, it still says hi and tells you the time and date. For anything else, it lets you know there's no connection.

Who answers each question

In Claupet Console, Settings › Answers splits questions among three engines:

Engine	What it is	Uses tokens
No AI	The app on its own: it recognizes short, clear phrases ("turn up the volume", "what time is it in Tokyo?"). Always on.	No
Local model	A small model on your computer (Windows).	No
Cloud	Claude Code with the chosen model.	Yes

Mode sets how they're split:

Mode	What it does
Default	No AI for the time, the date, the weather, your computer's status and Claude usage; everything else goes to the cloud.
Token saver	No AI for everything the app knows, the local model for the rest, and the cloud if needed.
Only on this computer	The same, but it never reaches the cloud, except for internet, files and tasks.
Custom	You choose the first engine for each type of question.

Below that:

• If it doesn't understand › Pass to the next engine: how far a question goes when the first engine didn't understand it.
• Show who answered: a chip below each answer ("No AI · Open-Meteo", "Cloud · Haiku").
• My city: for the weather. "Automatic (by IP)", the Windows location or "Type a city…".
• Savings: how many of this week's answers didn't use the cloud.

Note

With No AI nothing leaves your computer, except the weather: the city name (or coordinates) goes to Open-Meteo and, if My city is automatic, your IP goes to ipwho.is. Internet, files and tasks always go to the cloud.

The pet's and the island's model

Pet model (in Settings › Assistant; Haiku by default) and Island model (in Settings › Island; "Same as your sessions" by default) choose the cloud model. Automatic picks the model and effort to fit the question: short things go to Haiku, explaining or writing to Sonnet, deep analysis or an error to Opus. Answering account picks which Claude Code account to use.

The local model

Windows only. A small model (Qwen3.5) that runs on your computer, answers simple things without spending tokens and works offline.

1. In Settings › Answers › Local model, choose the size:

   Model	Download	Memory while answering
   Qwen3.5 0.8B	533 MB	About 1 GB
   Qwen3.5 2B (recommended)	1.3 GB	About 2 GB
   Qwen3.5 4B	2.7 GB	About 3.5 GB

2. Press the download link in the row below. You can see the progress and cancel.

3. Pick a mode that uses it (Token saver or Only on this computer), or choose "Local" as the pet's or the island's model.

Option	What it does
Graphics card	Automatic (uses it if it starts with it), Always or Never (processor only). Works with any brand, dedicated or integrated.
Free the memory after	Minutes without use before it frees the memory (5 by default).

Warning

The local model can make things up on general questions. Use it for simple things and leave what matters to the cloud.

Actions on your computer

Claupet does things on your computer when you ask in the chat or on the island. It's a fixed list, so a misunderstood phrase can't do something else:

What	For example
Wallpaper, light or dark mode, app color	"turn on dark mode"
Volume and music	"turn up the volume", "pause the music"
Open apps, sites and settings	"open Spotify"
Screenshots or a snip (and looking at them)	"take a screenshot and tell me what the error says"
Add to your calendar	"schedule a meeting tomorrow at 10"
Notes	"note: buy coffee", "what did I note about the meeting?"
Reminders, even with the app closed	"remind me to drink water in 20 minutes"
Windows	"minimize everything", "bring up the browser"
The computer	lock, sleep, restart or shut down
Brightness	"set the brightness to 40" (laptop screen only)
Status	battery, disk and memory
Clipboard and folders	"copy this", "open Downloads"

Permissions

Changing the wallpaper, theme, color, volume or music, or opening something, doesn't ask for permission. Everything else asks the first time, on the island or in the bubble:

• Always allow: it won't ask again.
• Just this once.
• No.

Grant or take them back in Claupet Console, Settings › Assistant › Permissions: one switch per capability. Restart and shut down are confirmed every time.

Note

On macOS and Linux, actions use the system's own programs; if one is missing, the answer tells you which to install. On macOS brightness can't be changed, and on Linux with Wayland windows can't be managed.

Voice

How to talk to it

1. Turn on Settings › Assistant › Microphone. The first time, the voice model downloads (Whisper, 488 MB). Your voice is turned into text on your computer.
2. Hold right Ctrl, speak and let go. Or tap it twice to talk without holding it: it sends when you stop talking or with another tap.
3. Esc cancels.

The island also has a microphone button. Push-to-talk key changes the key (right Ctrl, Alt or Shift, or another one you record on Windows).

Tip

Microphone can't hear you? If it's muted or gives no sound at all (a virtual input, for example), Claupet tells you and points you to where to check. See FAQ.

How to hear the answers

1. Turn on Settings › Assistant › Read answers aloud. You don't need the microphone: it also reads its answers to typed messages.
2. Under Voice, choose Female or Male (Claupet's voice, downloaded once, about 400 MB) or the system one.

Claupet's voice runs on your computer and sometimes laughs or sighs. While it downloads, the system voice reads instead.

Keys

Windows only, with the chat or the island turned on:

Key	What it does
Ctrl+Alt+Space	Opens the chat (on the island if it's on; otherwise in the bubble).
Ctrl+Alt+A	Jumps to the pending permission or question.
Ctrl+Alt+T	Brings up the terminal of the session that's working or waiting.
Ctrl+Alt+N	Opens or folds the island.
Ctrl+Alt+S	Mutes notifications or turns their sound back on.
Copilot key	With the microphone on, a tap listens; without it, it opens the chat.

In Settings › Assistant › Keys you change the Chat shortcut, turn on the Copilot key and see the Keyboard shortcuts (if another app already uses one, it shows "in use"). To record a new key, choose Record another combination… and press it.

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