# How I Built a Voice-First AI Mirror You Can Run at Home

DevFeed: [How I Built a Voice-First AI Mirror You Can Run at Home](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-i-built-a-voice-first-ai-mirror-you-can-run-at-home-10734.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://noted.lol/mirrormate/>)

Author: Takafumi Miyanaga

Published: 2026-07-04T11:26:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Noted](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/noted.md>)

Topics: [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [App](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/app.md>), [User experience (UX)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ux.md>), [Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/retrieval-augmented-generation-rag.md>), [Software](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software.md>), [Hardware](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hardware.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>)

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## AI overview

MirrorMate is a self-hosted, voice-first AI assistant embedded in a half-mirror. The article explains its conversational wake-word workflow, cloud and fully local deployment options, configurable providers, RAG-based memory, plugins, locale presets, and the hardware needed to build the mirror.

## Source excerpt

I built a voice-first AI assistant that lives behind a half mirror. Here's how MirrorMate works, why it feels real, and how to host it yourself.