The latest articles on DEV Community by Yug dhamecha (@yugg49). https://dev.to/yugg49 https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F4161621%2Ff57c5a4d-ed41-42f2-a273-7d45a97b573f.png https://dev.to/yugg49 en Yug dhamecha Mon, 05 Oct 2026 04:13:18 +0000 https://dev.to/yugg49/i-turned-my-dadis-voice-memos-into-a-recipe-book-fully-offline-p04 https://dev.to/yugg49/i-turned-my-dadis-voice-memos-into-a-recipe-book-fully-offline-p04 <h2> What I Built </h2> <p>My Dadi, Savitri Devi, has cooked for our family for decades and has never written a single recipe down. Ask her for measurements and you get "thoda sa namak, jab tak rang badal na jaye." When she's gone, those recipes go with her.</p> <p>So I built <strong>Dadi's Recipe Book</strong>. She records voice memos in Hindi while she cooks, and the tool turns them into a clean, printable recipe book. It transcribes the audio, structures it into ingredients and steps, and flags every vague amount ("thoda", "andaaz se", "ek mutthi") so I can ask her about it later instead of guessing.</p> <h2> Demo </h2> <p>[Add a screenshot of a Hindi transcript turning into a structured recipe, or a short video of it running with the wifi off]</p> <h2> Code </h2> <p>&lt;------------------------------------------------------------------&gt;</p> <h2> How I Built It </h2> <p>Everything runs locally on my laptop, with no cloud API anywhere:</p> <ul> <li> <strong>Speech-to-text:</strong> Whisper (<code>medium</code>) via faster-whisper, with the language set to Hindi (<code>hi</code>)</li> <li> <strong>Recipe structuring:</strong> Qwen 2.5 (7B) running through Ollama</li> <li> <strong>Export:</strong> a Python script that builds a PDF with her name, photo, and recipes</li> </ul> <p>The LLM prompt is written to keep her own Hindi phrasing instead of rewriting it into generic recipe-speak, and to mark any vague quantity as "Dadi se poochna hai" rather than inventing a number.</p> <p><strong>What went wrong:</strong> [Write one real failure, e.g. "Whisper <code>small</code> mangled dish names like baingan bharta, so I switched to <code>medium</code>."]</p> <h2> Why Does Open Innovation Matter? </h2> <ul> <li> <strong>Her voice stays private.</strong> These are recordings of a family elder. They never leave my machine, and no server I don't control ever hears them.</li> <li> <strong>It works offline.</strong> I ran it at her house with no internet, on a laptop, while she was cooking.</li> <li> <strong>I could swap models when something broke.</strong> When [real example: Whisper misheard a dish name / the LLM over-corrected her style], I changed the model size and edited the prompt. With a closed API, I couldn't have touched what's underneath.</li> <li> <strong>It costs nothing to run,</strong> so the book can keep growing with every recipe she shares.</li> </ul> <h2> The Handover </h2> <p>I gave Dadi the printed book on [date]. Her reaction: "[her actual words]"</p> <h2> What's Next </h2> <p>More recipes, a copy for each cousin, and voice search so anyone can ask "how did Dadi make kadhi?"</p> devchallenge weekendchallenge hf26challenge Yug dhamecha Sun, 04 Oct 2026 17:35:44 +0000 https://dev.to/yugg49/hello-eao https://dev.to/yugg49/hello-eao <p>this is my first post!!</p>