I built a demo of a voice AI task manager. You speak naturally and it updates your visible task list in real time.
Try it here: taskmaster.keithschacht.com
Web-based. Desktop or mobile. No sign up.
I built a demo of a voice AI task manager. You speak naturally and it updates your visible task list in real time.
Try it here: taskmaster.keithschacht.com
Web-based. Desktop or mobile. No sign up.
I find it helpful to talk aloud to figure out my priorities. I’ve wired up voice AI to many daily routines and this task manager is one of the most useful. In the morning, I sit down at my computer with a cup of coffee, pull up Task Master, and start rambling:
“Mark that first task as done. Actually, undo that. Add a task to proofread it one more time. Move that to the top. Snooze the next two until tomorrow …”
I built this to explore AI UI. My key observations:
- I grew up with sci-fi characters talking to computers and wanted to test whether that interaction actually works in practice.
- Voice is great for input but poor for output beyond short responses; visual feedback has much higher bandwidth.
- Speaking is 2–3× faster than typing, and LLMs work great when you can talk in a loose, stream-of-consciousness way.
- We’re in the command-line era of LLM interfaces.
It’s built on LiveKit with a Rails web UI. It listens continuously, maps speech to tool calls, and operates with the full task-list state so it can make sense of ambiguous references (e.g. “the third item,” “the thing with my kids”).
This is intentionally rough and incomplete, it’s a demo not a production app. Tasks are saved server-side, and it’s tied to your anonymous browser session. My personal version of this app has dates, task descriptions, and the ability to snooze items. I focused this demo on the core interactions with the goal of making it feel polished and smooth so people could try it. I’m interested in feedback on the interaction model rather than feedback on this as a product.
Code is here: github.com/keithschacht/taskmaster
I’m especially curious about:
- For you, does speaking feel meaningfully faster or more fluid than clicking and typing?
- When you make a mistake or want to edit, does correcting it feel natural?
- Want to collaborate collaborating on building personal AI tools?
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Email me: krschacht at gmail
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