Finds your programs on her own
She looks through Start menu shortcuts, the registry, Store apps and any folders you point her to. “Open telegram” finds Telegram, and when she has to ask which one you meant, she remembers the answer.
Say the word.
Rina is a voice assistant for Windows. She opens programs, sets timers, turns the volume up and down, and answers questions. Your voice is recognized on your own computer and doesn't leave it.
Everything she remembers about you stays with you. You can open any entry and delete it.
Try saying
Windows 10 and 11 · no account · free beta · Apache-2.0
“This is how I hear you: from silence to a line in the journal.”
What happens after you speak
Five steps, and at any of them Rina can stop and ask. None of them leaves your computer.
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Heard
Cuts the phrase out of the silence and turns it into text. Vosk and Whisper work offline.
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Understood
Works out what to do and with what: which program, how many minutes. An unfamiliar phrase can go to a local model or a web search, but both stay off until you turn them on.
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Checked
Several matches, an unsigned program, something that can't be undone: Rina asks first and tells you what will happen.
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Acted
The action goes through a single registry in the core, where every tool's permissions are checked.
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Logged
The journal gets the call: which tool, with what, and how it ended. Free text is replaced by its length.
What she can do
Works by voice from the first launch, with nothing to set up.
“I find programs on my own. If I'm not sure, I ask.”
Timers, reminders and the system
Timers and reminders go off even with the window minimized. Volume, pause, screenshot, sleep, shutdown: sixteen system actions in all.
Voice both ways
She answers sentence by sentence without waiting for the end, and a word from you cuts her off. She listens with Vosk or Whisper and speaks with Edge, gTTS, Piper or pyttsx3 voices.
Your own commands
A command is built from steps: pause, repeat, condition, calling another command. One brought over from another machine arrives switched off.
Plugins
Each runs in its own process, and its permissions are checked the same way as the built-in tools'. Six come in the box: a clock, dice, a greeting, notes, a unit converter and exchange rates.
Close at hand
A floating command bar over your windows, the tray, autostart and hotkeys. Three window finishes and two languages: English and Russian.
“Your voice stays on this computer. The rest leaves only if you ask.”
Nothing leaves until you ask
There is no account. Telemetry exists only in the beta: it is off until you turn it on, and it goes away with the beta.
Always stays with you
- Recorded sound and recognized text: Vosk and Whisper run on your computer.
- The contents of your files and notes, and the conversation history.
- Paths on your disk, program names, tokens and passwords.
- The diagnostic package: it is put together only when you ask, and anonymized.
Leaves only if you turned it on
- Edge or gTTS voice
- the reply text — to Microsoft or Google
- Web search for an unfamiliar phrase
- the phrase itself
- Local model
- the question — to the address in settings, usually localhost:11434
- Model downloads
- alphacephei.com, huggingface.co
- Update check
- api.github.com — on the button or once a day
- Exchange rates plugin
- cbr.ru
- Beta telemetry
- numbers once a day, no words, paths or names
You turn each of these on yourself, and each one is labeled in the settings.
“What Rina knows about me”
A page inside the program. It lists learned words, the conversation history, reminders, your own commands, plugins, the folders searched for programs, every telemetry report and the settings you changed. Next to them is a button to forget: everything at once or one by one.
“There's no installer yet, but I already run from source.”
Install
Rina installs into your user profile and doesn't need administrator rights.
The installer
There hasn't been a release yet: the beta is still being built. Once the installer is out, the link will appear here and on the releases page.
It won't touch PATH, ask for administrator rights, install a service or turn on autostart. Autostart is a setting inside the program.
From source, today
You need Windows, Python 3.10 or newer, and .NET 9.
git clone https://github.com/Luna-coreX/RinaAssistant.git
cd RinaAssistant
pip install -r requirements.txt
dotnet run --project shell/Rina.ShellOn first launch a short wizard asks which voice and which recognition you want, and downloads only those. Then say or type “open notepad”, “set a timer for 5 minutes” or “what is 17 times 23”.
“Free, and written down in advance.”
What's free, and what may be paid later
Written down now, while nothing is paid.
The beta is free
All of it. There is no payment code in the program at all.
The local core stays free
Voice, launching programs, commands, reminders, plugins, the local model, the privacy page. All of it is Apache-2.0, and no one can take the license back from a copy you already have.
Paid, if anything, will be additions
Most likely things that cost money to run: a service on a server, a connector to a paid third-party service.
What stays open
Handling of your sound and your data, safe program launching, confirmation of dangerous actions, the security journal, the protocol and the basic features.
“Next I get a voice of my own and a long memory.”
What's next
The whole plan is public: milestones, blocks and every task, with its size, dependencies and status.
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4.0-port · done
Separation
The core became a separate service and the shell was rewritten in C#, with a protocol between them.
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4.0-beta · now
Open beta
The installer, this site, privacy and explainability. We're finding out whether the program is useful in real work.
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4.0 Stable
Release
Update channels, signed releases, our own update server.
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4.1+
Later
Rolling back versions and delivery through a CDN.
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5.0
Platform
Speech that starts while the answer is still forming. Long-term memory. Computer control under detailed permissions.
Rina “This is what I look like inside.”
You'll say the rest.
Rina runs from source today, and the installer comes with the open beta.