--- title: How I Built a Voice-First AI Mirror You Can Run at Home description: MirrorMate is a self-hosted voice-first AI assistant that runs behind a half mirror, combining hardware (Raspberry Pi, display, microphone) with software... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-built-a-voice-first-ai-mirror-you-can-run-at-home-wwpmcos0k twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How I Built a Voice-First AI Mirror You Can Run at Home | daily.dev og:description: MirrorMate is a self-hosted voice-first AI assistant that runs behind a half mirror, combining hardware (Raspberry Pi, display, microphone) with software... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-built-a-voice-first-ai-mirror-you-can-run-at-home-wwpmcos0k og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/wWpMcOs0K.png og:image:alt: How I Built a Voice-First AI Mirror You Can Run at Home 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. # How I Built a Voice-First AI Mirror You Can Run at Home **[Noted](https://daily.dev/sources/noted)** · 8 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary MirrorMate is a self-hosted voice-first AI assistant that runs behind a half mirror, combining hardware (Raspberry Pi, display, microphone) with software (Next.js, SQLite). It supports two deployment modes: minimal cloud setup using OpenAI APIs, or fully local using Ollama, VOICEVOX, and faster-whisper. The system features RAG-based memory for personal context, YAML-driven configuration for swapping LLM/TTS/STT providers, a plugin system for extensibility, and built-in integrations for weather, calendar, and reminders. The architecture keeps the Pi thin (UI and audio only) while offloading heavy AI workloads to a separate inference server, connected via Tailscale for privacy. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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