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So the gist of it is "trust us". The app records, then uploads the recording to your server, you process it, return the transcription, and then, at a later time, you delete the recording.
Well, if it's my server, and it only sends it there and back, is there an issue? What am I missing here?
I did not get "self hosted" from the write up. It read as "their server". So you are giving them the recordings to transcribe and trusting that they will delete the recording, transcription, and logs.
Ahhh so I see. That's a hard no, if that's the case.
Looking at the code though, there is a server and client section.
I'll have to have a closer look. It's an interesting project.
It might be that this is just a poor write-up. If it is a self-hosted server and both the server and app are open source, then it is definitely worth a look.
Hi!
As @lehenry stated, the source code for both apps and server parts are available on our forge and under a FLOSS (Free Libre and Open Source Software) license (Specificaly, the GNU GPL v3 license for the app part and GNU AGPL v3 for the the server one).
So you can copy, modify, distribute source code: you're free. (But you need to respect the license conditions, of course!)
This first version of Lokas is a Proof of Concept, meaning it's not our finished vision of what Lokas should be.
If people express their desire for us to continue this project, we'll probably put more resources (energy, time, money) to enhance Lokas (Some possible enhancements are expressed at the end of the blog post), and one of the possible action would be allowing people to use their own server. We can even imagine having a fully offline experience, using only the user's device resources to do the transcription.
We have literally no interest in exploiting any of user's data. Framasoft is a non-for-profit organization acting since 20 years to help people get back control on their devices and digital lives. We are totally against data exploitation and surveillance capitalism.
As usual, in the end, it's just a question of trust if you want to use Lokas app (and our server) or not. And that's totally fine if you don't trust us!
-- Booteille
Personally, I think it sounds like a great project if I could self host or run offline. At the moment I and a number of my clients are growing increasingly uncomfortable with the use of Microsoft's and Google's resources to transcribe meetings. This is especially true since the shift to Teams meetings and the rise of LLMs. At the moment nobody is asking employees to not use those resources because no viable self-hosted or offline solution is available. I will definitely keep an eye on this project.
The source code of the server is available and Framasoft is a trustworthy French non profit organization that is defending open source, privacy and degooglisatio. They are, among other things behind PeerTube.
Good to know. Then, as I noted in the other comment thread, this is just a terrible write-up that skips some key details like, well, everything you listed. If this can be self-hosted then it is indeed a cool app.