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Vela

iCUE widget In development

A holographic voice assistant for your desk. Tap the Edge, ask out loud, and she answers in a natural voice that runs on your own GPU.

Vela at large size: a woman drawn in profile as a single glowing blue line, long hair made of light strands, facing the captions. She is speaking: the question “what’s my GPU doing right now” sits above her answer about the GPU sitting at forty one degrees.
Vela at medium size: the glowing profile on top, her name, a Speaking status and the answer in captions below.

What it does

  • Tap anywhere on the widget and talk. Claude Code answers, and Vela speaks it a sentence at a time, so the first words come about four seconds after you stop.
  • Two original characters: Vela and Orrin, each with their own voice and personality. One tap switches.
  • She listens, thinks and speaks on the widget: the line of light brightens as she listens, her eyes drift while she thinks and her lips move as she talks.
  • Live captions in a soft serif, word by word as she says them.
  • The voice runs locally: Orpheus, an open speech model, on your graphics card. Your words go to Claude; the voice never leaves your PC.

Set it up

  1. Run the included installer once. It sets up the voice helper and downloads the voice model (about 4.5 GB).
  2. Open iCUE and select the Xeneon Edge.
  3. Open the widgets section and press the plus button.
  4. Pick the .icuewidget file you downloaded, or install it straight from Elgato Marketplace inside iCUE once it is listed there.
  5. Drag the widget into a slot. Hold it to open its settings: colours, transparency and what it shows.
  6. Tap the widget and ask something. The first answer after a break takes a few seconds longer while the voice loads.

Permissions

iCUE asks you to approve these when you install. Here is what each one is for. Everything stays on this PC unless a line says otherwise.

Local helper app localhost:13509
Talks to a small helper app on this PC. It answers only widgets on this PC and never opens anything to the internet. Why: Reads what the voice assistant is doing (listening, thinking, speaking) and what it has said so far, to show it on the widget. Swipe between Edge pages even when your finger starts on this widget. iCUE alone only swipes from the gaps between widgets.
Open links iCUE URL plugin
Opens a link or an app when you tap. Why: Starts listening when you tap, and starts the helper app if it is not running, so the widget fixes itself.

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