AnovaX: A Local, Multi-Agent Voice Assistant with LLM Planning, Typed Executors, and Adaptive Recovery

Abstract

arXiv:2607.15367v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Desktop voice assistants are still dominated by cloud pipelines that ship raw audio off the machine and expose a fixed set of skills. We describe AnovaX, a small local-first assistant that runs entirely on the user's computer and treats the desktop itself as its action surface. A single Python process wires together a wake-word gate, a speech pipeline, an LLM planner (Gemini) that emits a JSON plan of tool calls, a whitelist-and-denylist safety lay