Astra

Astra is Mike Livingston's (Red4Recon) AI app workspace — a voice-first assistant codebase and the home base for the AI projects listed below.

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Projects

Project	Description	Link
Jarvis AI Assistant	Voice dictation and assistant app for macOS (with an iOS app and keyboard in ios/). Hold Fn, speak, and cleaned-up text is pasted anywhere; supports local transcription (Whisper, NVIDIA Parakeet via Sherpa-ONNX), local LLMs via Ollama, or cloud Deepgram + Gemini.	Source code
Grok Feature Ideas	Feature idea pages written for xAI / Grok.	github.com/Red4Recon/grok-feature-ideas
Whisper Flow	A dedicated voice app.	In development

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Jarvis AI Assistant

Features

• Hold Fn → speak → release → punctuated text appears in the active app
• Removes filler words and fixes grammar; can rephrase or format as bullet points
• Simple voice actions (e.g. opening apps)
• Customizable prompts for dictation, email formatting and assistant behavior
• Offline transcription with local Whisper or NVIDIA Parakeet (Sherpa-ONNX)
• Local LLM support via Ollama, or cloud Deepgram + Gemini

Keyboard shortcuts

Shortcut	Action
Fn (hold)	Start/stop recording
Fn (double-tap)	Toggle hands-free mode
Escape	Cancel recording

Build from source

git clone https://github.com/Red4Recon/Astra.git
cd Astra
npm install && npm run build && npm run dev

Requires Node.js 18+, macOS 10.13+ and Xcode command line tools. iOS build notes are in ios/README.md.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

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License

MIT — see LICENSE. Jarvis AI Assistant is based on the open-source jarvis-ai-assistant project by Akshay Aggarwal.