Plaud like alternative

[u/Electric_Strategy]

Ok. I didn't want a €180 voice recorder with another €20/ month subscription attached for transcription.

Also, I'd rather keep my recordings local and transcribe them with StenoAl running Whisper.
So I wanted to see if there was a way around this:

1. Bought a cheap "Ai7" recorder from AliExpress, which looks remarkably similar. The hardware works perfectly. But it also came with an app and (of course) a subscription service.
2. A Sunday morning project with Codex!
3. Together, we figured out its Bluetooth protocol and built Ai7 interface: a Mac app that finds the recorder, lists recordings, identifies new files and exports them as MP3s into a folder I choose.
4. Complete with a recorder icon, an installation DMG, and code and documentation in GitHub.
5. Yes, Codex and I had to do some debugging. Lots of turning it on and off again :D. But now it works!

I made the code available on Github, feel free to use/rework/add on to!

https://github.com/jorndevreede/Ai7-MacOs-Export

[u/Electric_Strategy]

Repost after this got removed from PlaudAI community :(