--- title: GitHub - RunanywhereAI/RCLI: Talk to your Mac, query... description: RCLI is an open-source, on-device voice AI CLI tool for macOS running entirely on Apple Silicon. It combines a full STT + LLM + TTS pipeline with sub-200ms... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/github---runanywhereai-rcli-talk-to-your-mac-query-your-docs-no-cloud-required-on-device-voice-a-j9aoweeqq twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: GitHub - RunanywhereAI/RCLI: Talk to your Mac, query your docs, no cloud required. On-device voice AI + RAG | daily.dev og:description: RCLI is an open-source, on-device voice AI CLI tool for macOS running entirely on Apple Silicon. It combines a full STT + LLM + TTS pipeline with sub-200ms... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/github---runanywhereai-rcli-talk-to-your-mac-query-your-docs-no-cloud-required-on-device-voice-a-j9aoweeqq og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/J9aOweEQQ.png og:image:alt: GitHub - RunanywhereAI/RCLI: Talk to your Mac, query your docs, no cloud required. On-device voice AI + RAG og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # GitHub - RunanywhereAI/RCLI: Talk to your Mac, query your docs, no cloud required. On-device voice AI + RAG **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary RCLI is an open-source, on-device voice AI CLI tool for macOS running entirely on Apple Silicon. It combines a full STT + LLM + TTS pipeline with sub-200ms end-to-end latency, 43 macOS voice-controlled actions (via AppleScript), and local RAG over documents (PDF, DOCX, text) with ~4ms hybrid vector+BM25 retrieval. No cloud or API keys required. Powered optionally by MetalRT, a proprietary GPU inference engine for Apple Silicon achieving up to 550 tok/s. Supports 20+ models including Qwen3, LFM2, Whisper, Parakeet, and Kokoro TTS. Installable via curl or Homebrew, with an interactive TUI dashboard for model management, benchmarking, and action control. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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