Dexter Web (Next.js)

Dexter is a web‑based voice assistant inspired by the "Jarvis" interface. This refactored version uses Next.js with Tailwind CSS and the xAI API.

Setup

1. Install Node.js (v18 or later).
2. Create a .env.local file at the repository root and set XAI_API_KEY to your API key.
3. Install dependencies:

npm install

Development

Start the development server:

npm run dev

Navigate to http://localhost:3000 to use Dexter. API requests are handled by Next.js API routes.

Production Build

npm run build
npm start

Features

• Text and voice input using the browser Speech Recognition API.
• Text to speech responses.
• Simple chat interface with a webcam preview.
• All intelligence provided by xAI's grok-2-vision-1212 model.

Dexter speaks with an English accent and keeps a conversational history so replies feel natural.