A Windows port of OpenOats — a real-time meeting assistant that transcribes conversations, surfaces relevant notes from your knowledge base, and saves session summaries. Runs entirely on your machine.

Original macOS app by @yazinsai. This repo reimplements it for Windows using Python + PySide6.

• Real-time transcription — mic + system audio captured simultaneously via WASAPI
• Live suggestions — searches your local knowledge base and surfaces relevant notes during the call
• Auto-generated session notes — summarizes each meeting using an LLM when the session ends
• Past sessions browser — view transcripts and notes from previous meetings
• System tray — runs quietly in the background, single-click to show/hide
• Screen share protection — optionally hides the window from screen capture (Windows SetWindowDisplayAffinity)
• Transcript search — filter the live transcript in real time
• Fully local option — use Ollama for LLM + embeddings, Whisper or Parakeet for transcription (no data leaves your machine)

• Windows 10/11
• Python 3.12
• A microphone
• System audio capture via WASAPI (built into Windows)

For cloud mode: OpenRouter API key (for LLM) + Voyage AI API key (for embeddings) For local mode: Ollama running locally with a language model and an embedding model

git clone https://github.com/ibrahimokdadov/winopenoats.git
cd winopenoats
pip install -r requirements.txt
python main.py

On first launch, the onboarding wizard will walk you through model selection and API key setup.

pip install nemo_toolkit[asr] --user

1. Click Record to start a session — transcription begins immediately
2. Speak normally; the transcript updates in real time
3. Suggestions from your knowledge base appear automatically
4. Click Stop — notes are generated and the session is saved
5. Click Notes to browse past sessions

You are solely responsible for obtaining consent from all parties before recording any conversation. Recording laws vary by jurisdiction.

Based on OpenOats by @yazinsai, originally built for macOS in Swift. This project is a ground-up reimplementation for Windows in Python.

Licensed under the MIT License.