I started off trying Electron, but I am liking Tauri more. It seems Rust has better support for system-level integration, like controlling audio and keys. Are there other alternatives you are exploring?

Thanks for the feedback, probably should have been clearer in my original post and in the README as well. Local inference is already supported via Pipecat, you can use ollama or any custom OpenAI endpoint. Local STT is also supported via whisper, which pipecat will download and manage for you.

Yup, the desktop app is built with Tauri, which is cross-platform compatible, and I have personally tested it on macos and windows

Yes, Pipecat already supports that natively, so this can be done easily with ollama. I have also built that into the environment variables with `OLLAMA_BASE_URL`.

About ollama in pipecat: https://docs.pipecat.ai/server/services/llm/ollama

Also, check out any provider they support, and it can be easily onboarded in a few lines of code.

Hey, sorry if the examples given were not robust, but because this is built on Pipecat, you can actually very easily swap to a local LLM if you prefer that, and the project is already set up to allow you to do that via environment variables.

The integration to set up the WebRTC connection, get the voice dictation working seamlessly from anywhere, and input into any app took a long time to build out, and that's why I want to share this open source.