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A developer introduced Yogurt on Hacker News's Show HN forum, describing it as a free, private, and open-source alternative to the meeting-notes app Granola. The post points to a changelog documenting features, improvements, and fixes for the project.
Speaking at a Granola-hosted meetup for design engineers, Maggie, a Staff Research Engineer at GitHub Next, described her career path through illustration, art direction, UX/UI and product design before landing in a hybrid research-engineer role. She argued that design engineering should not be reduced to flashy micro-interactions, but instead means designers who understand software's technical materials—state, data flow, databases, APIs, auth and latency—and who act as a bridge between design and engineering teams.
Granola, best known for automated meeting notes, launched a dictation tool that lets Mac users press the Fn key to speak and have text inserted into any app, from emails to prompts. The company says the feature offers unlimited words for free and will expand to iOS and Windows soon. The move mirrors Wispr, which added a meeting notetaker months after building its name on dictation.
Google has introduced a new AI-powered note-taking application for Mac that operates entirely offline using on-device models. The app, named Google AI Edge Foresight, allows users to record, transcribe, and review meeting notes across various apps, supporting manual input and AI-generated summaries. It also enables document uploads to build a knowledge base for real-time question answering during meetings.
Google has released an experimental app called Google AI Edge Foresight that transcribes meetings and audio files entirely on-device, using its EmbeddingGemma 2 model. The free app turns shorthand notes into polished summaries and includes a built-in assistant that can answer questions about meetings or connected local files, with Google saying data never leaves the user's computer. It currently only works on Macs with Apple Silicon.
Startup Voicebox, led by CEO Karan Gupta, lets customers give feedback by speaking into their phones after scanning a QR code or tapping an NFC chip, with voice automatically transcribed and analyzed for sentiment on a company dashboard. The company has partnered with airport terminals and was used at a Lena Dunham book event, where attendees left spoken reactions instead of typed reviews.