I Added Voice to My AI Assistant — Built in a Day, Zero Monthly Cost
AI assistants manage email, publish content, analyze financial data. To tell yours something, you type it with your thumbs.
I added voice to mine. My assistant built the whole thing in a day.
A web page with push-to-talk. Press a button, speak, and the assistant processes it with access to my files, tools, and six months of conversation history. It reads the answer aloud. Same assistant I message from my phone. Same memory.
It monitors all assistant activity. Scheduled tasks, responses on other channels—I hear them spoken without looking at a screen.
Eight bugs surfaced—firewall blocking the connection, speech engine crashing on emoji, mismatched audio rates. Each fixed without my involvement.
The voice runs on free open-source text-to-speech. Added monthly cost: zero.
OpenClaw is a self-hosted AI assistant that runs on your own server and connects to your real tools.
I teach a class on setting up and getting the most from OpenClaw—details at themeperks.com/openclaw-course/.
