Hitoku Draft is a local voice AI assistant for your computer
Hitoku Draft is an open-source AI assistant that runs on your own computer. It can read your screen, documents, and current app, then help by voice with emails, PDFs, calendar events, web search, and text editing. For solo makers, the main value is testing a more private AI helper that understands what you are working on.
Key points
- It is built as a voice-first local AI assistant.
- It can answer questions about PDFs, draft email replies, create calendar events, search the web, and edit text.
- It supports Gemma 4, Qwen 3.5, and several STT backends.
- A free download code was shared for Hacker News readers.
Quick term guide
- open-source
- Software whose code is shared publicly so others can inspect, use, or change it.
- AI assistant
- A software tool that uses artificial intelligence to answer questions or help with tasks.
- compute
- The server power and chips needed to run AI systems.
- testing
- The process of checking that software does what it's supposed to do, usually by running it and looking for errors.
- STT backends
- These are tools that turn spoken words into written text.
- backends
- The server-side parts of an app that handle data and logic.
- backend
- The service that actually handles the search or page reading.
- share
- A server folder made available to apps or other devices.