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I've been trying to find an AI note taker for when I have calls for work so I don't miss anything because my boss likes to ramble through a bunch of tasks at once. I'm looking for one of those background note takers that will be triggered whenever I get a slack or Google meets call, and I don't have to add it to the call for it to work. I'd prefer something open source but not a deal breaker there. The ones I've found when I search for a Linux note taker never seem to have a Linux version for downloading.

Has anyone had any luck finding a good Linux one or had success with a Windows one with wine?

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[-] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Use ffmpeg to record audio from your desktop (which will include the meeting) then pass it to whisper.cpp or other text-to-speech FLOSS solutions. No need for "AI" or Windows software for that kind of tasks.

[-] [email protected] 33 points 2 days ago

No need for “AI”

whisper is AI, it's even made by the Big Bad, OpenAI themselves

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

If they still wanted to use 'AI' to summarise or interrogate it, they could then pass that text to something like Jan on their own hardware.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

I just use regular ol' ed for jotting my thoughts on the AI-related news I see each day. After all, it is the standard text editor.

...was that not the question?

/s

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Apparently, there's something called Reor, which apparently does what you want it to do.

Otherwise, Obsidian with Text Generator and Ollama is a good option as well. Both local-first apps as well, mind you.

Edit: I'll be trying Reor with Neigsendoig (my producer) shortly and get back to y'all with our results.

Edit 2: Reor doesn't want to download, so I'll stick with Text Generator and Ollama potentially.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I use cherrytree. It is a bit clunky, but gets the job dobę.

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