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SitrepNoteTaker

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SitRep — free, open-source, offline voice dictation. Press a shortcut, speak, and your words appear in any text field. Powered by Whisper/Parakeet, built with Tauri.

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# SitRep

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[![Built with Tauri](https://img.shields.io/badge/built%20with-Tauri%202-24C8DB)](https://tauri.app)

**A free, local, privacy-first voice notetaker. Press a shortcut, speak, and have your words appear in any text field — entirely offline.**

SitRep is a cross-platform desktop application for simple, private speech transcription. Everything happens on your own computer; no audio is ever sent to the cloud.

## How It Works

1. **Press** a configurable keyboard shortcut to start/stop recording (or use push-to-talk mode)
2. **Speak** your words while the shortcut is active
3. **Release** and SitRep processes your speech locally
4. **Get** your transcribed text pasted directly into whatever app you're using

The process is entirely local:

- Silence is filtered using VAD (Voice Activity Detection) with Silero
- Transcription uses your choice of models:
  - **Whisper models** (Small/Medium/Turbo/Large) with GPU acceleration when available
  - **Parakeet V3** — CPU-optimized model with excellent performance and automatic language detection
- Works on Windows, macOS, and Linux

## Development Setup

For detailed build instructions including platform-specific requirements, see [BUILD.md](BUILD.md).

**Prerequisites:**

- [Rust](https://rustup.rs/) (latest stable)
- [Bun](https://bun.sh/) package manager

```bash
# Start the app (one command)
bun start
```

`bun start` is all you need on a fresh clone — it installs frontend
dependencies if needed, ensures the Silero VAD model is present (it ships in the
repo but is downloaded as a fallback), applies the macOS CMake workaround, and
launches the desktop app in development mode.

<details>
<summary>Equivalent manual steps</summary>

```bash
# Install dependencies
bun install

# (Fallback only — the model is committed to the repo)
mkdir -p src-tauri/resources/models
curl -o src-tauri/resources/models/silero_vad_v4.onnx https://blob.handy.computer/silero_vad_v4.onnx

# Run in development mode (macOS may need the CMake policy override)
CMAKE_POLICY_VERSION_MINIMUM=3.5 bun run tauri dev
```

</details>

```bash
# Build for production
bun run tauri build
```

## Architecture

- **Backend (Rust / Tauri 2):** audio capture (cpal), VAD (Silero), transcription (whisper-rs / transcribe-rs), global shortcuts, system tray, clipboard paste
- **Frontend (React + TypeScript + Tailwind):** settings UI, model manager, onboarding, recording overlay

See [AGENTS.md](AGENTS.md) for a detailed architecture overview.

## Acknowledgments

SitRep is based on [Handy](https://github.com/cjpais/Handy) by CJ Pais and contributors, used under the [MIT License](LICENSE). Transcription is powered by [whisper.cpp](https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp) (Georgi Gerganov), NVIDIA Parakeet, and [Silero VAD](https://github.com/snakers4/silero-vad).

## License

MIT — see [LICENSE](LICENSE). The original copyright notice from the Handy project is retained as required.

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