In simple English
This desktop application listens to your conversations and writes meeting notes for you. It runs entirely on your own computer so your recordings never leave your machine. You do not need an internet connection or a paid cloud subscription to use it. It is free to download and use under an open-source licence. The software works on macOS, Windows, and Linux.
What it is
StenographAI is a privacy-first meeting recorder and summariser powered by local artificial intelligence models. It captures microphone and system audio, transcribes speech, and formats clear meeting minutes into editable Markdown files.
What it is good for
It suits solo builders, remote workers, and consultants who handle confidential client calls and want local transcriptions without sending audio recordings to third-party cloud services.
- Keeps all your meeting audio and transcripts entirely on your own computer.
- Works offline without sending data to any cloud service.
- Exports clean Markdown notes that fit easily into existing knowledge bases.
- Requires a computer with 8 GB to 16 GB of memory to run local artificial intelligence models smoothly.
- Summarising long meetings can make your computer run slowly while the processor works hard.
- Requires manual installation of helper tools and command-line steps if you run it from source code.
Paid cloud transcription services and manual note-taking during meetings.
Ollama for running local text-summarisation models.
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git clone https://github.com/stenolabs/stenoai.git cd stenoai python3 -m venv venv source venv/bin/activate pip install -r requirements.txt