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Show HN: Yogurt – Free, private, open-source alternative to Granola

Show HN: Yogurt – Free, private, open-source alternative to Granola

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  • lavendermon
    I live in a two party consent state and have yet to pull the trigger on an AI transcription service. Yogurt is the first appropriate implementation of the service in my opinion, both for personal privacy and to limit potential issues if Granola or similar service gets hacked and transcriptions go public.I appreciate that you included a default warning for the owner to let everyone on the call know they are being recorded. It might be ideal to take that a step further and have the popup occur again if another party joins the call and should also be notified of the recording.
  • theturtletalks
    I’ll add it to my open-source directory[0].How does it differ from Muesli[1] and OpenOats[2]?0. https://opensource.builders/alternatives/granola1. https://github.com/pHequals7/muesli2. https://github.com/yazinsai/OpenOats
  • jgrodziski
    I got frustrated with call note apps too, and also built my own as a native Mac app: https://retranscript.appI wanted full automation, full customisation of prompts for summary, ideas extraction, etc. and using the best speech-to-text models available (I will also add Apple's SpeechAnalyzer soon for mundane transcription where the best accuracy is not needed).Once started, Retranscript runs on its own. It notices the call automatically, records all voices with no bot in the meeting. Everything lands as plain files in a configurable folder.The trade-off is the reverse of Yogurt's: the audio goes to the model you chose instead of staying on your Mac. With your own keys it goes straight to the provider on openrouter, and nothing passes through my server. There's no subscription. The app is free, and you pay for the models, at the provider's price with your own key or with prepaid credits. It's closed source for now (will release as open-source in the future), and Mac-only.Congrats on the launch, it's good to see so many people exploring this space, each with a different take on it.
  • hmokiguess
    I have been using Muesli for this https://github.com/Muesli-HQ/muesli how does it compare?
  • nonethewiser
    This is totally off topic, but how do people feel about generic names like Yogurt?I've always sort of assumed it wasnt a good idea because there is collision everywhere (SEO, registries, domain, etc).
  • achrono
    OpenWhispr [1] is one of the earliest in this exact space, and it already supports a greater variety of models than Yogurt. Also supports meeting transcription, summarization, dictation etc. in similar ways as Yogurt.So, why Yogurt?1: https://github.com/OpenWhispr/openwhispr
  • shireboy
    Just tried it on a teams call and it did great transcribing and summarizing. It didn’t pick up the other speaker’s name though. Still I’ve been wanting something like this a while
  • mickdarling
    It's a lot of fun to see what people can do with the voice transcription tools available now that are all open source.I've been building my own Jarvis, and I still haven't built my own meeting mode for him yet, though it's on the trajectory. I may borrow some ideas from this.I really like the filter for the whispered, hallucinated words that Whisper sometimes hears, like, "Thanks for watching," when it's silent. That's cool.I do a similar splitting of speech, but I think a slightly different mechanism. So I'll have to take a look at how well yours works.And, I'm not checking the loudness of the mic and the computer audio to figure out when the speaker output is leaking. That's nice.If there was anything I would add to yours, it would be diarization on the same inputs. So the room mic might have two or three people behind it, and to have diarization for that to know who is talking at any one time would be probably helpful. I use NVIDIA's Nemotron on the Mac. https://huggingface.co/nvidia/Nemotron-3-DiarizationAnd, I have enrollment for voices with speaker embeddings using this: https://github.com/wenet-e2e/wespeaker
  • rc1
    I’d love to see evals for how similar this is to Granola for meeting summarisation, on the github pageIt should be possible given granola stores the transcript and the summary.Granola has been such a fantastic sticky product for me given how simple it is: guaranteed a good summary, and a MCP that is a couple of clicks to setup with Claude/ChatGPT.
  • ProblemExplorer
    Great job! It's refreshing to see something not limited to Macs/Apple Silicon.When starting out, did you consider:- Handy, either forking it or adding PRs?- If you disliked the Handy UI, what about the choice of backend? Did you look into RealtimeSTT? The author is really serious about ASR and transcriptionThere are a 1000 Mac ASR and transcription projects, so it's really refreshing to see something that others outside the Mac garden can use - my worry is that by not reusing more mature foundations, you end up taking too much of a burden and burn out. The non Apple Silicon space needs more projects like these!
  • austinhutch
    Great work! Personally would love the option to skip out on some of local model post processing features or optionally offload it to openrouter, the summarization steps and the ask feature eat up tons of resources.
  • QGQBGdeZREunxLe
    > "Backed by Y Combinator"How exactly?Edit: Ah I see the parent company - https://frigade.com/
  • walthamstow
    I made something like this myself but because I didn't want anyone to know I was doing it, no bot in the call, I couldn't diarise the notes. I have what's been said, but not who said it. Did you manage to solve this?
  • zaius
    I also got frustrated with Granola earlier this year and have been building my replacement - Noted: https://takenoted.com/It shares similar principles but is (currently) closed source and mac-only.Take a look at anarlog as well - it's a great project and I wish I'd found it earlier as I probably would have contributed instead of starting my own: https://anarlog.so/Let me know if you want to compare notes - I am sure we have hit a lot of the same issues.
  • Aniket-N
    The electron use is giving me pause. It’s going to eat up memory.
  • mrkn1
    Yapsnap runs fast on CPU and even does diarization on CPU.https://github.com/kouhxp/yapsnap
  • mandeepj
    Enable transcription and at the end summarize it, and those are your notes. Anything critical, pressing, or deserves immediate attention, you write it down. That’s it! Not sure why there are so many apps redoing it over and over again in a very similar way.Yogurt team - congratulations on your launch. I am not throwing a wrench at you. Those are my thoughts about this category in general.
  • newman314
    Does yogurt support proper diarization and multilingual? Can’t seem to find confirmation.Also, what’s the current best STT model? Apple’s dictation model isn’t good which is one big reason why I don’t use STT much.
  • kokugle
    Been waiting for this for so long. very cool product
  • fmajid
  • pruneau
    Is it possible to choose which model or models are used for transcription? Are other languages, such as French, supported?
  • hvvivek
    Gonna give this a try! I too stopped all the other subscriptions and have been looking for something that works well.
  • iamwil
    Currently using OpenWhispr. What is the difference between the two?
  • kpozin
    How does this compare to OpenWhispr and similar apps?
  • anoojb
    looks amazing! if you used AI coding agents to build this, any reason why you couldn't refactor this to use gpui or rune to still get cross platform but have better performance?
  • andy_ppp
    This looks absolutely incredible! Thank you!
  • asdfqwertzxcv
    Excited to give it a whirl. Great work!
  • yevmiyeci
    readme could use the details from this post tbh. also is the local mcp server auth’d somehow or can any local app read the transcripts?
  • paul_h
    "Private AI meeting notes. Free and open source"... for those that not initiated and don't want to be nerd sniped. I wish Hackernews allowed a concensus changing of post titles to add missing contect.
  • vad_n__
    Hmm... granola is usually yummy with yogurt.
  • BizarroLand
    The name reminds me of the line in Spaceballs:"Yogurt!? Yogurt! I hate yogurt! Even with strawberries!"
  • arjgoel30
    Love the name
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