A universal voice assistant
I'm building on my idea for a personal EDU stream (https://andysmith.ai/2026/Aug/14/a-personal-public-edu-stream/).
The idea is a universal voice assistant where one of the modes is learning.
This assistant can also run all my sessions in Claude Code (and other agents), answer email, and do everything some Hermes-like thing does. Voice is just one of the interfaces.
It could look like this. I hop on Discord (or some other call app) and spend 100% of my time (or close to it) on a call with the agent.
The agent can read my feed out loud (how that feed gets built is a separate discussion from the voice part) and collect my feedback on what it's reading.
In the simplest version, it just reads out loud the books and articles I've picked (and it's picked).
I can interrupt it at any point and give feedback or ask about something (and then the agent drops what it was doing and talks through whatever I don't get or find interesting).
At any point I can also say I've had a thought and dictate a post.
Or ask it to do some task.
Basically, I want to make voice one of my main interfaces for work. Or at least lean on it hard. And give my eyes a rest now and then.
I'll put together the architecture for all this in the next few days and see what's already out there.