{
  "id": 15815123,
  "title": "DentaNote: dental clinical notes with local Gemma, no audio leaves the operatory",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/20/dentanote-dental-clinical-notes-with-local-gemma-no-audio-leaves-the",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-20T23:00:43.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/adalbertobrant/dentanote-dental-clinical-notes-with-local-gemma-no-audio-leaves-the-operatory-1fpl"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Dental professional built DentaNote, a tool to streamline transcription of patient visits into structured clinical notes. The system processes audio in real time using Whisper and Ollama models, eliminating the need for manual typing and reducing note creation time to under a minute per appointment. DentaNote ensures privacy and compliance with LGPD by keeping all data processing local and never transmitting patient information. The tool addresses common issues such as hallucinations and neighbor-swap errors by using structured output, deterministic templates, and user validation. The developer invites others to contribute to the open-source project, expanding its capabilities to various dental specializations and languages.",
  "summary": "I see patients, dictate the visit note, and still lose time building the structured record — fields, tooth numbers, the whole drill. DentaNote is the tool I wrote to cut that step: audio in, structured clinical note out , running 100% locally, with not a single byte leaving my machine. What I built and how much effort it saves The full pipeline — transcription with Whisper, extraction with Gemma…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Dev.to",
        "title": "The houses on my list are my side hustle, so Gemma scores them and the list never leaves my phone",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/19/the-houses-on-my-list-are-my-side-hustle-so-gemma-scores-them-and-the",
        "published": "2026-10-19T03:03:53.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}