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OpenCode Superapp is a native workspace developed by OpenCode that integrates local, self-hosted, or cloud AI models with realtime voice interaction. It offers private dictation, Computer Use (control of local computer tasks), extensions, widgets, and secure remote access. The site describes the product as Codex-inspired.

Gentle Dot is a personal AI assistant for macOS that stays available from the desktop, maintains one continuous conversation with long-term Engram memory, reads attached files, and can operate applications through screen-based clicking, typing, shortcuts, and app launches. Each computer-control session requires approval in a native dialog; risky actions require additional confirmation, and a panic shortcut can stop control. The desktop application uses Tauri 2 and a native helper, while a Node daemon runs the Gentle Shell agent engine and exposes its events to the desktop and browser interfaces over WebSockets. It supports voice input and spoken replies, configurable model accounts, MCP-based connectors, and a browser or Docker-hosted server interface. The project is an early preview with no published releases; the code is MIT-licensed and is built by Gentleman Programming on top of Gentle-AI.

Steno is an open-source, privacy-first desktop AI notepad and meeting notetaker for Windows and macOS, intended for confidential conversations. It records microphone and system audio, provides live or post-meeting transcription with speaker labels, generates summaries, and supports natural-language queries across individual notes or the meeting library. Its local mode uses on-device AI models; on Apple Silicon, live transcription uses Parakeet TDT v3 through MLX, while Whisper supports post-stop transcription in 99 languages. On macOS 14.4 and later, native Core Audio Tap captures both sides of virtual meetings without a virtual audio cable and with selectable microphone input. Steno can detect meeting start and end events, offer to start or summarize recordings, append recordings to existing notes, provide global recording shortcuts, and include user notes in generated summaries. Notes, transcripts, and summaries are stored as editable Markdown, with one-way synchronization to an Obsidian vault and report templates for structured outputs. The project states that local recordings, transcripts, and summaries remain on the device and have no cloud usage limits; users can alternatively configure hosted models through OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS Bedrock, or a custom API endpoint.

Voicebox is a local-first, open-source AI voice studio developed in the jamiepine/voicebox repository. It combines voice cloning, text-to-speech, speech-to-text dictation, voice profiles, audio effects, and agent voice output in a desktop application. It generates speech through seven switchable TTS engines, including Qwen3-TTS, Qwen CustomVoice, LuxTTS, Chatterbox, HumeAI TADA, and Kokoro, and supports voice cloning from reference audio, preset voices, multilingual generation, automatic text chunking, crossfading, and multi-track story editing. Whisper-based transcription powers global dictation, in-app recording, and the transcription API; an optional local Qwen3 LLM can refine dictation or rewrite text according to a voice profile's persona. The application exposes REST endpoints for speech generation, agent speech, transcription, and profile management, plus a built-in MCP server with tools for speaking, transcribing, and browsing captures and profiles. It runs models and stores voice data locally, using Tauri with a React/TypeScript frontend and FastAPI backend; platform backends include MLX on Apple Silicon and PyTorch on CUDA, ROCm, XPU, DirectML, or CPU. The repository is licensed under the MIT License and provides macOS, Windows, and Docker distribution, with Linux build-from-source instructions.

VoiceStudio is an open-source, fully local desktop application for voice cloning and design, text-to-speech, transcription, dictation, video dubbing, and long-form audio production. It runs on macOS Apple Silicon, Windows, Linux, or Docker and keeps voices, projects, settings, and generated files on the machine by default. The application combines a Tauri desktop shell, a React and Vite interface, and a local FastAPI backend with registries for multiple TTS and ASR engines. Its workflows can transcribe and translate video, preserve speaker assignments, synthesize replacement speech, render audiobook chapters, separate vocals, diarize speakers, process batch jobs, and route work to CPU, CUDA, Apple Silicon MPS/MLX, ROCm, or optional remote workers. It also exposes local REST, SSE, WebSocket, OpenAI-compatible audio, and MCP interfaces, including speech synthesis and transcription endpoints. VoiceStudio is licensed under AGPL-3.0; downloaded models and tokenizers retain their own licenses. The local workflow requires no account, API key, subscription, or usage meter, although remote workers, configured external ASR endpoints, analytics, and other network-backed functions are opt-in. The repository describes the software as an active beta and distributes packaged desktop releases as well as source code.