Speak, keep the note, stay on your machine.
A voice journal that stays on your computer.
Voice notes pile up. DictaWhisper turns a recording into a note you can reread, on your own computer, sitting next to the audio.
The name is dicta (dictation, a dictaphone) plus Whisper. There is no account. Each recording keeps a small notes file beside it. That file is the journal.
Runs on your desktop. MIT.
What you get
- Hit Record in the inbox, or drag an audio file onto the page. A phone folder that syncs in later (via Syncthing or any folder sync) is optional.
- Copy the folder and you copied the journal. Open a note in any editor. There is nothing to export.
- Speech is transcribed on this computer. A second pass can tidy the prose here, or on another computer you already use. If that helper is asleep, you still have the raw words.
- At home the inbox is a page on this machine. On Tailscale the same page works from your phone.
- You get readable paragraphs, a few tags, and playback that follows what you are reading.
A normal day
- Say something. Record in the inbox, or drop a file you already have.
- DictaWhisper writes the words, then a cleaner pass that drops the ums and adds tags.
- Open the inbox. Notes are grouped by month. The readable version is first; the raw speech is one click away.
If a phone app is also dropping files into a folder, those wait until the copy is finished. Browser recordings start right away.
Where the words get tidied
Transcription happens on your desktop. Tidying the prose can happen here too, or on another machine with a stronger writing model. ollanet is how DictaWhisper finds that helper.
The recording stays. Only the text moves, and only if you asked another computer to help.
Quick start
git clone https://github.com/Catalyst-Forge-LLC/dictawhisper.git
cd dictawhisper
cp config.example.json config.json
pnpm install
pnpm run doctor
pnpm dev
Then open http://localhost:7777. Setup is on Install. Flags live in the GitHub README.
Built by Catalyst Forge LLC.