An Offline Meeting Transcriber
An offline meeting transcriber has been developed to ensure that sensitive meeting notes remain private. The system processes audio locally, transcribing it into markdown without sending data to external servers. This tool is designed for high-trust environments, allowing for easy reuse of components in various audio transcription tasks.
- ▪The transcriber processes audio files locally, ensuring privacy and security.
- ▪It utilizes models for transcription, speaker diarization, and summarization, all designed for composability.
- ▪The output is structured in a Granola-style markdown format, suitable for integration with note-taking applications.
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May 29, 2026 An Offline Meeting Transcriber Built on Swamp I take "handwritten" meeting notes in Obsidian when I can. Some of these meetings I'd want transcribed as well, but they are high trust, private, and sensitive — the exact kinds of meetings you don't invite strangers to. So the notes and recordings shouldn't leave my laptop either to be processed or stored by strangers. On a whim, I had Claude Code build offline-meeting-transcriber: audio in, Granola-style markdown out, nothing leaves the MacBook. To be clear, I didn't write any of this by hand — Claude Code did the bash, the Python, and later the swamp models, while I steered, reviewed diffs, and made the design calls. The first version was a bash wrapper around four Python files. It worked.
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