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Show HN: Opensidian: Local-first notes in the browser with POSIX shell and sync(opensidian.com)
2 points by braden-w 5mo ago|2 comments
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by braden-w 1y ago
I totally agree with this hot take. Whispering is not there yet, but I eventually want it to store as many of the transcripts as plain text markdown, alongside your audio files, in a folder. The idea is that as we add more local-first apps
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by braden-w 1y ago
Thank you for the support! I'm glad to hear that it's been helping you since the start of the year. Totally agree on the transformation prompts. It's challenging to get the transformation model to not occasionally get short-c
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by braden-w 1y ago
Thanks for sharing a great alternative! It seems that that setup can go a long way for Linux users.
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by braden-w 1y ago
Thanks for shouting out some other great alternatives! The UI looks really clean. Right now, the pricing is entirely free, and we are trying to expand our local model support to make it truly free. Subscriptions are up to the user right now
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by braden-w 1y ago
We're actively tracking this issue here: https://github.com/epicenter-so/epicenter/issues/440 Thank you again for bringing this to my attention! Need to step up my Windows development.
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by braden-w 1y ago
Thanks for flagging this, and sorry that this is happening! Does downloading the model manually work? I wonder if it's related to this: https://github.com/epicenter-so/epicenter/issues/669
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by braden-w 1y ago
Thank you for the support! Sorry for the issues with FFmpeg. This is an active issue that we're tracking: https://github.com/epicenter-so/epicenter/issues/674 We hope to fix notifications too thank you
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by braden-w 1y ago
Sorry for the delayed response, thank you for sharing these articles! I agree. I hope that we get a lot better open-source STT options in the future.
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by braden-w 1y ago
I really want to run it locally on a phone, but as a developer it's scary to think about making a native mobile app and having to work with the iOS toolchain I don't have bandwidth at the moment, but if anyone knows of any OSS mo
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by braden-w 1y ago
Thank you for the support, and agreed on OS-level integration. At least for me, I have trouble trusting any app unless they are open source and have a transparent codebase for audit :)
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by braden-w 1y ago
Awesome, thank you so much for bringing this to my attention and including it in the thread! Always cool to see other open source projects :)
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by braden-w 1y ago
We like Whisper because it's open-source :) but we also support OpenAI 4o-transcribe/ElevenLabs/Deepgram APIs that all use non-Whisper models (presumedly) under the hood. Speaches also supports other models that are not Whisp
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by braden-w 1y ago
Awesome, thank you so much for bringing this to my attention! Cool to see another open source project that has different implementations :) much to learn with their Parakeet implementation!
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by braden-w 1y ago
^Yep, unfortunately, the best option right now seems to pipe the output into another LLM to do some cleanup, which we try to help you do in Whispering. Recent transcription models don't have very good built-in inference/cleanup, w
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by braden-w 1y ago
Awesome, thank you so much for bringing this to my attention! Always cool to see other open source projects that have better implementations :) much to learn!
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by braden-w 1y ago
I'm a huge fan of using Whisper hosted on Groq since the transcription is near instantaneous. ElevenLabs' Scribe model is also particularly great with accuracy, and I use it for high-quality transcriptions or manually upload files
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by braden-w 1y ago
Not that I know of. I think the two most prominent open-source models that we hear about are Whisper and Parakeet!
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by braden-w 1y ago
Some lovely folks have left some other open-source projects that implement Parakeet. I would recommend checking those out! I'll also work on my own implementation in the meantime :D
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by braden-w 1y ago
Thanks so much for the support! Really appreciate the feedback, and it’s great to hear the vision resonates. No worries on the STT/TTS experience; it’s just awesome to connect with someone who shares the values of open-source and ownin
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by braden-w 1y ago
Agreed!
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by braden-w 1y ago
Totally agreed, huge fan of Hyprnote as well. We work on two slightly different problems, but a lot of our tech has overlap, and our missions especially overlap :)
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by braden-w 1y ago
Thank you so much for the support, really means a lot! Happy to hear that it has helped you with translation, and agreed, it's kinda crazy native dictation hasn't caught on yet. In the meantime, we have OSS to fill in the gaps.
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by braden-w 1y ago
Thank you so much for the support! It really means a lot to me. And I can't wait to hear about what you're building. Feel free to DM me and Discord when the time comes :)
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by braden-w 1y ago
The data is currently stored in IndexedDB, and you can currently only access it through the user interface (or digging into system files). However, I'm hoping in future updates, all of the transcriptions will instead be stored as markd
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by braden-w 1y ago
Thank you so much for your support! It really means a lot :) Happy to hear that it's helped you, and keep in touch if you ever have any issues!
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by braden-w 1y ago
Diarization is on the roadmap; some providers support it but some don't and the adapter for that could be tricky. Whispering is not meant for meeting notes for now; for something like that or diarization I would recommend trying Hyprno
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by braden-w 1y ago
Diarization is on the roadmap! Some providers support it, but some don't and the adapter for that could be tricky. Currently, for diarization I use the Elevenlabs Scribe API https://elevenlabs.io/app/speech-to-text
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by braden-w 1y ago
Need to run a diff against 7.2.2 tag against 7.3.0; I suspect the issue might be something related to an edit I made on `tauri.conf.json` or one of my Rust dependencies.
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by braden-w 1y ago
Yeah I agree, I neglected to update the docs and demo. This post was made anticipating the local transcription feature to drop earlier but it took some time due to some bugs. Before, the default option was using Groq for transcription, but

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