Kevin Houston
Writing

Notes on building in practice.

Practical notes on shipping software, AI workflows, integration design, and decisions made under real constraints.

Building Source, a Local-First Transcriber for Raw Transcript Ownership

I did not build a new transcription model. I built a local-first wrapper around faster-whisper because the existing meeting tools optimize for summaries, and I wanted the raw transcript source file. The writeup covers macOS packaging, mic and system audio capture, model tradeoffs, and what I learned about input quality versus model size.

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