What it is

Denticta is a purpose-built audio recorder that lives right in the dental operatory. It's not a phone on a tray or a generic voice memo app — it's dedicated hardware designed to sit in the room and capture the dentist-patient conversation hands-free, the entire time, without anyone having to touch it mid-procedure.

The hardware

The current build (Denticta v2) runs on an ESP32-S3 as the brain — that's the chip handling audio capture, processing, and connectivity. It's a custom PCB you designed in KiCad, with the power side built around a TPS63020 buck-boost converter to keep everything fed cleanly off whatever supply it's running on. Because it's ESP32-S3-based, it's got Wi-Fi and Bluetooth baked in, so the captured audio can move off the device without a tangle of cables. The whole thing is meant to be a clean, fixed install in the operatory rather than something a hygienist has to fuss with.

How it works in the flow

Denticta captures. DentaLog processes. That's the two-part system. Denticta grabs the raw operatory audio, and then your DentaLog pipeline — Whisper for transcription, GPT-4 for structuring — turns that audio into clean, organized clinical notes. So the dentist talks normally during the appointment, and on the back end it comes out as proper documentation instead of something they have to scribble down between patients or reconstruct from memory at 7pm.

The problem it kills

Charting is the bane of a dentist's day. They're either interrupting care to jot notes, or they're stacking up hours of after-hours documentation. Both are bad — one hurts the patient experience, the other torches the dentist's evenings and invites errors when memory fills the gaps. Denticta + DentaLog removes the choice entirely: the conversation gets captured automatically and turned into records that are actually more complete than hand notes, because nothing gets dropped.

Where it sits in your stack

It's the hardware anchor of your dental play. Texto handles appointment reminders, DentaLog is the transcription brains, and Denticta is the physical capture layer that feeds it — and the fact that you've got a real dental practice in the loop is what makes this more than a science-fair build. It's the thing competitors doing pure-software dental scribes (Bola AI, Denti.AI, etc.) can't easily replicate, because you own the capture device end-to-end.