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Big fan of handy and it’s cross platform as well. Parakeet V3 gives the best experience with very fast and accurate-enough transcriptions when talking to AIs th
by d4rkp4ttern 8mo ago
Big fan of handy and it’s cross platform as well. Parakeet V3 gives the best experience with very fast and accurate-enough transcriptions when talking to AIs that can read between the lines. It does have stuttering issues though. My primary use of these is when talking to coding agents.
But a few weeks ago someone on HN pointed me to Hex, which also supports Parakeet-V3 , and incredibly enough, is even faster than Handy because it’s a native MacOS-only app that leverages CoreML/Neural Engine for extremely quick transcriptions. Long ramblings transcribed in under a second!
It’s now my favorite fully local STT for MacOS:
https://github.com/kitlangton/Hex https://github.com/kitlangton/Hex
- Barbing 8mo agoI installed a few different STT apps at the same time that used Parakeet and I think they disagreed with each other. But Hex otherwise would’ve won for me I think. Wanna reformat the Mac & try again (been a while anyway). My comment on this from a month back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46637040 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46637040
- arach 8mo agoHex is great and not trying to pull you away from them - would love to get your pov when you give these a spin next time. email or DM me
- james2doyle 8mo agoI was having the same journey but landed on https://github.com/hoomanaskari/mac-dictate-anywhere https://github.com/hoomanaskari/mac-dictate-anywhere