Whisperdesk
I made offline meeting transcription that never leaves your laptop
Runs Whisper locally and drops a clean, speaker-labeled transcript into a plain markdown file. No cloud, no upload, it works on a plane and it works when the meeting was about something you would rather not hand to a third party. I built it after reading one too many transcription-tool privacy policies that quietly reserved the right to train on my audio. Speaker diarization without the cloud was the fun part: a small local embedding model gives rough labels that are good enough to skim a meeting you missed. It still trips on heavy crosstalk and long recordings take a while, but it has become the thing I reach for every week.
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