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So I Built a Local Alternative. og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Your Private Calls Shouldn’t Go to the Cloud. So I Built a Local Alternative. **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A developer built EchoBrief, a fully local audio transcription and summarization tool for private calls, using OpenAI's Whisper (via faster-whisper), a local LLM through Ollama (llama3.1:8b), and a Streamlit web interface. The entire pipeline runs on-device with no data sent to external servers, providing architectural privacy rather than policy-based promises. A key feature is that every action item in the generated brief includes the exact transcript quote it was derived from, making hallucinations immediately detectable. The tool supports common audio formats, runs via Docker, and is open source. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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