Developer Builds Offline Desktop AI Assistant Jansky

Mayukh Bagchi recently built Jansky, an offline desktop AI assistant running on a Raspberry Pi 5 that listens, transcribes, reasons, and speaks entirely locally. It uses Whisper.cpp for speech recognition, Ollama hosting a compact Qwen 2.5 model (1.5 billion parameters), and Piper for neural TTS, with optional cloud fallback. The project demonstrates inexpensive, privacy-preserving on-device assistants are practical today.