DnD Discord Notes Bot

A Discord bot that records DnD sessions, transcribes them locally using Whisper, summarizes the transcript using a local LLM via Ollama, and automatically writes structured session notes to Notion/Discord. Everything runs on your own machine — no audio, transcripts, or session data is ever sent to an external server.

Tools:

• Whisper is speech recognition system by OpenAI (open-sourced): fully local, runs on CPU/GPU, free, no OpenAI account needed, no data leaving computer (https://github.com/openai/whisper)

• py-cord to build the Discord bot (free, account needed)

• Ollama for local LLMs (free), used for summarization

• Notion client (optional) - by default, the bot creates a Discord thread to post the meeting summary, but integration with Notion is also enabled

• Python version: 3.12

Project Summary:

Phase 1 — Live Recording (during session)

• User types !record in Discord
• Bot joins the voice channel and begins capturing audio
• Each player's audio is recorded as a separate track/TBD/
• User types !stop to end the recording
• Individual tracks are merged into a single WAV file locally

Phase 2 — Processing (after session)

• User types !notes to trigger the pipeline
• Whisper transcribes the merged WAV file entirely on-device
• Long transcripts are chunked into ~3,000 word segments
• Each chunk is summarized by the local LLM via Ollama
• Chunk summaries are combined into final structured notes
• Notes are written to a new Discord Thread (or Notion page via the Notion API)

Bot Commands

• !record Bot joins your voice channel and starts recording
• !stop Stops recording and saves the merged audio file
• !notes Runs full pipeline and posts notes to Notion

Notes Structure

Each session generates with the following sections:

• Session Summary — 2-3 paragraph narrative recap written like a story
• Key Events — Chronological bullet list of major plot moments
• NPCs Encountered — Names, descriptions, and what was learned
• Player Decisions — Important choices made and potential consequences
• Loot & Rewards — Items, gold, XP, and level ups
• Loose Threads — Unresolved plot hooks to follow up on
• DM Notes — World-building details and things to remember

Planned Improvements

• RAG — index past session notes so the LLM can cross-reference returning NPCs, locations, and plot threads
• Speaker diarization (with pyannote.audio?) — label who said what in the transcript
• !recap command — ask the bot questions about past sessions
• Automatic NPC page updates — append new info to existing NPC pages instead of duplicating
• Live notes during the session
• Fine-tuning? Probably over-kill for D&D. Or maybe RAG