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Show HN: Hitoku Draft – Context aware local assistant

Voice-first AI that actually stays on your machine. Hitoku Draft reads your screen, queries PDFs, drafts emails—all locally, all open-source.

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Why it matters

A developer is shipping a context-aware local AI assistant that competes with cloud-based alternatives by running entirely on-device. This signals growing demand for privacy-first, offline-capable AI tools among non-technical users.

The key facts

12 to know
  1. Open-source, voice-first local AI assistant

  2. Supports Gemma 4 and Qwen 3.5 for text generation

  3. Multiple STT backends: Parakeet, Qwen3-ASR

  4. Features: screen reading, PDF querying, email drafting, calendar events, web search, voice editing

  5. Free download with code HITOKUHN2026 (base $5)

  6. Posted on Hacker News (Show HN)

  7. Cross-platform version in development

  8. Target: AI-interactive local models for professionals

  9. Open-source, voice-first AI assistant running entirely locally

  10. Features: screen reading, document querying, email composition, calendar integration, web search, text editing via voice

  11. Priced at $5 (promotional code HITOKUHN2026 for free download)

  12. Posted on Hacker News with minimal engagement (5 points, 0 comments as of publication)

Go to the source

Hacker Newshitoku.me

Publisher excerpt: Hi guys. I have been working on Hitoku Draft, an open-source, voice-first AI assistant that runs entirely locally. I posted about it already, and now it has also transcription with voice editing. Looking for feedback, as I found that outside tech circles other people still do not use this tech…
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