Epicenter

Local-first, open-source apps

Own your data. Use any model you want. Free and open source ❤️

📢 Repository Update: Whispering has become Epicenter! The original repository moved here. Everything else remains the same—same tools, same philosophy, same team.

Full details...

• Whispering's evolution beyond transcription required changes to the repository's structure and branding.
• Everything else remains the same—same tools, same philosophy, same team.
• The original app lives on as Epicenter Whispering, keeping a tight focus on transcription.
• This makes room for standalone apps with complementary, but non-transcription-related features (like Epicenter Assistant).
• The new root of the Epicenter repository contains common files supporting all the apps in the ecosystem.
• Note: the old URL github.com/braden-w/whispering is now just a thin placeholder redirecting to this rebranded repository.

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What is Epicenter?

Epicenter is an ecosystem of open-source, local-first apps. Our eventual goal is to store all of your data—notes, transcripts, chat histories—in a single folder of plain text and SQLite. Every tool we build shares this memory. It's open, tweakable, and yours. Grep it, open it in Obsidian, host it wherever you like. The choice is yours.

The Vision (how the ecosystem will work):

• Long-time Epicenter Whispering users may have configured numerous LLM API keys, transformations, and even local models.
• When the Epicenter Assistant is started for the very first time, all these API keys, transformations and local models seamlessly work.
• Epicenter Assistant may even access Whispering transcription history to provide personalized results out of the box.
• Of course, this works the other way, too: Whispering can take advantage of your Epicenter Assistant history to optimize transcriptions and transformations!
• In a siloed ecosystem, this requires much more effort, or may not even be possible.

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