I Built a Voice Notebook That Runs Entirely on My Own Computer
Build log · October and November 2026 I Built a Voice Notebook That Runs Entirely on My Own Computer Dictate notes, ask questions about months of them, proofread them, and talk to it through your speakers. Everything stays on your machine, unless you ask it to search the web. No cloud · No subscription · No account · RTX 4070 SUPER · CachyOS Linux I wanted one thing: talk, and have my words end up as tidy notes that I can question later. No account, no monthly fee, and nothing I say leaving my computer. A PhD supervisor meeting, a lecture, a stand-up: all of it is private by default if it never leaves the machine. So I built it. It's called narrastack . This post is the story of what it does, how it works, and the eight problems that took the longest to solve. If you want to build something similar, the problems are the useful part. Contents → What it ...