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I built one of the fastest real-time transcription apps for Mac
- alexburlis 1y agoAfter a messed up heart catheter I've had pain in my right arm after just two hours of coding. To keep going, I thought I could use a transcription tool for the vibe coding part of the day, where I usually need to write out detailed prompts. All of them had one or more dealbreakers for me: - slow transcription (>500ms or even seconds for short audio) - slow mic init (>50ms) - bloaty amount of features slowing down the app - cloud or log in - subscriptions I just built my own so it feels like talking to your OS: - most of my transcripts take 100 - 250ms from hotkey release to paste. Going from >500ms to <250ms feels a bit like going from 60 to 120fps - about 200MB RAM, barely touches your battery - no login, no cloud, not even analytics. Literally nothing leaves your Mac. Only two connections: Parakeet download on launch and Polar/Gumroad if you enter a license key It just has one job: Near instant transcription so coding feels like magic. Thought I'd share it here. Feedback welcome.