Show HN: Audistill – A local knowledge base from audio, YouTube and podcasts

Category: ai-ml

Tags: audio-transcription, local-first, knowledge-base, macos, llm

Score: 6.0/10 (Innovation: 5, Technical: 6, Documentation: 7, Utility: 6)

Audistill is a macOS desktop app that transcribes audio and video locally using NVIDIA Parakeet, then uses an LLM via OpenRouter to distill transcripts into structured summaries and a searchable knowledge base. It combines local speech-to-text with bring-your-own-key LLM summarization, keeping audio on-device while offering privacy-conscious knowledge management.

Target audience: macOS users who consume podcasts, meetings, and videos and want a private, searchable knowledge base

Repository: https://github.com/audistill/audistill · TypeScript · AGPL-3.0 · 2 stars

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