yumii 0.13.0

Yumii — a private, voice-first AI companion for your desktop. Talks in real time, does things, remembers you — all on your own machine.

Yumii — the AI companion that's actually yours

She helps you do things — and helps you through things.

Yumii is an open-source AI companion that lives on your desktop — a floating orb you talk to out loud, in real time. She helps you do things (search the web, your email, your calendar), and she's honestly there when things are hard — not the empty validation of a chatbot, but grounded, real support. She remembers your life together, and she runs entirely on your machine: no account, no cloud, nothing ever leaves your computer.

Demo coming soon.

Experimental preview. The real-time voice loop, personalities, persistent memory, and permission-gated tools all work end-to-end. Windows-first for now; expect rough edges. See CHANGELOG.md and ROADMAP.md.

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Install (one command)

Windows (PowerShell):

iex (irm https://yumii.me/install.ps1)

That's the whole install. It sets up uv, a private Python 3.12, Yumii's backend, and the desktop app — then puts Yumii in your Start Menu. The first time you open her, she downloads her voice and ears (one-time), then asks for a single API key — a free Groq key is the easiest start (or Ollama). Then just talk.

Updating: re-run the same command.

macOS / Linux: the desktop shell is Windows-first for now — curl -fsSL https://yumii.me/install.sh | bash installs the backend for development, and the native shells are on the roadmap.

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What she does

• Listens — real-time speech, Silero VAD + Whisper (local or cloud), with barge-in you can talk over, like Gemini Live
• Thinks — Groq, Ollama Cloud, OpenAI, or Anthropic, with a persistent personality
• Speaks — Kokoro (fully local, free, no key) or ElevenLabs / CAMB.ai, streamed as she talks
• Does things — web search, plus Gmail, Google Calendar, and Notion via Composio, with every action behind a permission gate. These are the integrations for now — more are planned, including direct MCP and tool integrations.
• Remembers — searches every past conversation, writes and corrects her own facts about you, and knows when you last spoke and what happened
• Reacts — a floating orb that pulses and shifts colour with the conversation
• Stays yours — no account, no telemetry; API keys in an owner-only local file, memory in ~/.yumii/

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Personalities

Pick a vibe. Each one is just a text prompt you can edit — or write your own:

• Caring — warm, empathetic, and supportive
• Tsundere — playful teasing with a soft heart
• Genki — energetic and cheerful
• Kuudere — cool, calm, and rational
• Dandere — shy and quietly kind
• Yandere — intensely devoted

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Providers

Everything is switchable from the in-app dashboard — mix local and cloud however you like.

Role	Options
Mind (LLM)	Groq (free tier) · Ollama Cloud (minimax-m3, 1M context) · OpenAI · Anthropic
Ears (STT)	Local Whisper (private, offline) · Groq Whisper (fast, cloud) · Vosk (offline streaming)
Voice (TTS)	Kokoro (local, free, recommended) · ElevenLabs · CAMB.ai

Want her fully offline? Local Whisper + Kokoro + a local Ollama, and nothing leaves the machine at all.

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Run from source (developers)

Needs uv, Rust + MSVC C++ Build Tools (Windows); WebView2 ships with Win 10/11.

git clone https://github.com/CodeNeuron58/Yumii.git
cd Yumii
uv sync

cd desktop && npx @tauri-apps/cli dev   # the desktop app — the only way to run Yumii

The shell starts the backend for you (yumii server is the headless launcher it invokes — there is no interactive CLI and no browser UI).

Use uv, not pip — dependencies are locked with uv and installed via uv sync.

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Roadmap

Next up:

• Seeing your screen — she can look at what you're looking at and help with it
• Proactiveness — she notices and speaks first, instead of only answering

Later:

• Direct MCP and tool integrations, beyond Composio
• macOS and Linux desktop shells
• More voices, personalities, and languages
• Deeper, honest emotional support grounded in real psychology
• Live2D avatar mode — the long-term dream; no timeline yet

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Architecture

flowchart TD
    mic["Microphone"] --> vad["Silero VAD<br/>speech detection"]
    vad --> stt["Whisper STT<br/>local CPU · or Groq cloud"]
    stt --> agent

    subgraph agent [LangGraph Agent]
        direction TB
        sys["System prompt<br/>personality + episodic context + facts"] --> llm["LLM invoke<br/>Groq · Ollama · OpenAI · Anthropic<br/>tools bound · permission-gated"]
        llm --> synth["Synthesizer<br/>response + expression"]
    end

    agent <--> mem[("SQLite memory<br/>sessions · facts · transcript+FTS ·<br/>summaries · checkpoints — ~/.yumii")]
    agent --> tts["TTS<br/>Kokoro local · ElevenLabs · CAMB.ai"]
    tts --> ws["WebSocket"]
    ws --> orb["Desktop orb (Tauri)<br/>pulse + emotion colour"]

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Private by architecture

Privacy isn't a setting here — it's the design:

• No account, no server of ours, no telemetry. Your data goes only to the LLM/STT/TTS providers you choose — or stays fully on-device with the local options.
• API keys live in ~/.yumii/auth.json — owner-only permissions, atomic writes (the same model Claude Code and opencode use).
• Memory lives in ~/.yumii/ on your machine. Delete the folder and she forgets; back it up and she's portable.

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Contributing

Contributions are welcome — and the easiest one is genuinely tiny:

A new personality is a single .txt file in src/yumii/assets/prompts/. Copy one, rewrite the character, open a PR.

Other great starting points: new TTS/STT backends, more tools, or the macOS/Linux shells. See CONTRIBUTING.md.

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License

MIT — see LICENSE. She's yours.