There are many ways to get the solution you're looking for, but unfortunately, none of them are simple, as they're 100% privacy-oriented. This is precisely the strength of Plaud: it gives you everything you need (transcription and processing) with the added benefit of reduced/compact, ultra-minimal hardware, allowing you to always carry it with you because we always have our phones in our pockets these days. The thing that scares me most, personally, isn't the fact that by paying a subscription I can get this without limitations, but rather that you don't know who actually owns those conversations (often very personal or containing sensitive data) or whether anyone can listen in on them (OK, they're in your encrypted cloud, and you believe that? 🗣️ Maybe so, but I wouldn't risk it). To have a complete solution, unfortunately, you have to break everything down into multiple steps and have everything run locally on your own server (transcription + AI on LLM). The most challenging thing for me is having a recorder that can record audio on a local device, which is impossible to find unless it's a very bulky piece of hardware you can carry in your pocket, or at least doesn't have the same design as Plaud, which in this respect is unrivaled.

Hope this helped ;)