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Show HN: Super Note Taker – Free Meeting Notes with Local ML
I recently discovered you can run ML transcription models (e.g., Whisper) in your browser thanks to the Transformer.js library.
So I decided to build a completely browser-based meeting recorder and transcriber, à la Otter.ai .
It comes with a notepad and the ability to easily export some pre-made prompts.
That way you can quickly get Summary, Action points, etc. by pasting the exports in your favourite AI assistant.
For transcription I’m using a (english) model called Moonshine that is quite performant even with “less powerful” machines and has a small size (~60 MB). The accuracy is good enough for most of my use cases and LLM can recover transcription errors quite well.
The model is stored in the Web Cache so it persists and you don’t need to re-download it every time.
The application works on Chromium browsers only because unfortunately the Screen Capture API with audio is supported only there… Hopefully other browsers are going to match it soon, I didn't find a work around!
Let me know what you think :)