Whisper Notes Pro 🎙️📝➕

Transform your voice into text effortlessly with Whisper Notes Pro - a modern, lightweight note-taking app powered by whisper.cpp. Capture your thoughts, ideas, and notes through speech, all processed locally on your machine with advanced audio processing support.

✨ Features

• Voice-to-Text: Seamlessly convert speech to text using state-of-the-art Whisper technology
• Local Processing: All speech recognition happens offline on your device - no cloud services needed
• High-Quality Audio: Advanced audio sampling and processing for optimal voice recognition
• Modern UI: Beautiful, responsive interface with dark/light theme support
• Cross-Platform: Available for macOS (including Apple Silicon), Windows, and Linux
• Privacy-First: Your voice data never leaves your computer
• Instant Search: Quick note search with real-time filtering

📸 Demo

Here's a sneak peek of Whisper Notes Pro in action:

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🚀 Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Rust (latest stable)
• Node.js (v16 or later)
• pnpm (v8 or later)

Setup

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/yourusername/whisper-notes.git

# Navigate to the app directory
cd whisper-notes/app

# Install dependencies
pnpm install

# Download the Whisper model (required for speech recognition)
pnpm run download-model

# Run in development mode
pnpm tauri dev

Building

# Build for production (from the app directory)
pnpm tauri build

🛠️ Technical Details

Audio Processing

• Supports high-quality audio recording with automatic resampling
• Optimized for Apple Silicon and x86 architectures
• Uses CPAL for cross-platform audio capture
• Implements efficient audio processing with the Rubato resampler

Speech Recognition

• Powered by whisper.cpp for efficient local processing
• Uses the ggml-base model by default (can be configured to use medium/large)
• Supports multiple languages (configurable)
• Optimized for real-time transcription

Frontend Stack

• React with TypeScript
• Radix UI components for accessibility
• Tailwind CSS for styling
• Custom theme system with dark/light mode support
• Zustand for state management

Backend Stack

• Tauri for cross-platform desktop support
• Rust for performance-critical operations
• Custom audio processing pipeline

🗺️ Roadmap

• System audio recording support
• Multiple language model support
• Custom hotkeys configuration
• Export notes in various formats (MD, PDF, etc.)
• Rich text editing
• Cloud sync (optional)
• Voice commands for app control
• Note organization with folders/tags

🐛 Bug Reports

Found a bug? Please open an issue with:

• Your OS version and architecture (x86/ARM)
• Steps to reproduce
• Expected behavior
• Actual behavior
• Relevant logs (if available)

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please check our Contributing Guide for details.

Development Workflow

1. Fork the repository
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature)
3. Make your changes
4. Run tests and ensure everything works
5. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature')
6. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/AmazingFeature)
7. Open a Pull Request

📝 License

MIT License - feel free to use and modify as you wish!

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Built with ❤️ using Tauri, React, Rust, and whisper.cpp

Credits

This project was inspired by and forked from AsyncFuncAI's Tauri Whisper Notes. Many thanks to them for open-sourcing their work which served as an excellent foundation.