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Do you use it on a desktop? Mac by any chance? What's your setup? I've been looking to find a simple and fast dictation app for English but almost everything I
by crossroadsguy 1mo ago
Do you use it on a desktop? Mac by any chance? What's your setup?
I've been looking to find a simple and fast dictation app for English but almost everything I've tried (from Handy to many apps, eg some with Whisper in their names, after the model I assume) just don't work well. Apple's offering is worse than those though. I even tried with local enhancement models.
- pomtato 1mo agoYou should give VoiceInk[1] a go. It works great and has decent latency. https://github.com/Beingpax/VoiceInk https://github.com/Beingpax/VoiceInk
- brmkr 1mo agoI am biased as a developer on the project but you should give Epilude [1] a go if you want local dictation on a Mac. We’ve fine-tuned open-weight models to make them better (in our benchmarks) at cleaning up and formatting what you say so you don’t have to edit what you dictate. https://epilude.com https://epilude.com
- jwr 1mo agoI used MacWhisper for a long time and then recently switched to the free TypeWhisper. Both work very well on a Mac.
- stavros 1mo agoOut of curiosity, what was wrong with Handy? I use it and it works fine.
- LeBit 1mo agoI use Handy all the time and it is just perfect. I guess OP didn’t chose the right STT model.
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- PeriPan 1mo agoI suggest try openwhisperer.com, open-source. DMG or build from source (GitHub) Transcribing is perfect in many language and, it focuses on a selected app. Also it does TTS.
- scosman 1mo agoI just shipped this free app: https://github.com/scosman/Biscotti https://github.com/scosman/Biscotti Private offline transcription and summary. Speaker identification, working on voice-prints for identification across the corpus.
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