stenolabs/stenoai

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Steno is a privacy-first desktop AI notepad and meeting notetaker that records, transcribes, summarizes, and lets you query meetings entirely on-device using local Whisper and Ollama models. It targets users with confidential conversations—government, defence, healthcare, legal, and executives—by ensuring no audio or data ever leaves the machine.

Use cases

• transcribe meetings locally without cloud services
• summarize confidential meetings with a local LLM
• record both sides of a video call without a meeting bot
• ask questions about past meeting notes
• take notes in air-gapped or restricted environments
• generate meeting minutes for government or defence work
• mirror meeting notes into an Obsidian vault

When to choose

• you handle confidential conversations where data cannot leave your premises
• you need offline transcription and summarization on macOS or Windows
• you want a bot-free notetaker that works with Zoom, Meet, or Teams via system audio
• you operate in government, defence, healthcare, or legal sectors with strict privacy requirements

When to avoid

• you want cloud-based collaboration or shared team workspaces
• you need mobile or browser-based note taking
• your hardware cannot run local Whisper and LLM models comfortably
• you need multi-user editing or real-time shared notes

Facets

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speech-recognition llm-inference nlp audio-processing chatbot rag developer-tools privacy speech-processing self-hosted healthcare legal windows python meeting-notes transcription on-device-ai whisper ollama sovereign-ai notetaker local-llm obsidian-integration natural-language-processing macos desktop

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