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Hey HN! Braden here. Some of you might know me from Whispering a while back ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44942731 ). Obsidian was one of the biggest inspirations behind t…

I totally agree with this hot take. Whispering is not there yet, but I eventually want it to store as many of the transcripts as plain text markdown, alongside your audio files, in…

Thank you for the support! I'm glad to hear that it's been helping you since the start of the year. Totally agree on the transformation prompts. It's challenging to get the transfo…

Thanks for sharing a great alternative! It seems that that setup can go a long way for Linux users.

Thanks for shouting out some other great alternatives! The UI looks really clean. Right now, the pricing is entirely free, and we are trying to expand our local model support to ma…

We're actively tracking this issue here: https://github.com/epicenter-so/epicenter/issues/440 Thank you again for bringing this to my attention! Need to step up my Windows developm…

Thanks for flagging this, and sorry that this is happening! Does downloading the model manually work? I wonder if it's related to this: https://github.com/epicenter-so/epicenter/is…

Thank you for the support! Sorry for the issues with FFmpeg. This is an active issue that we're tracking: https://github.com/epicenter-so/epicenter/issues/674 We hope to fix notifi…

Sorry for the delayed response, thank you for sharing these articles! I agree. I hope that we get a lot better open-source STT options in the future.

I really want to run it locally on a phone, but as a developer it's scary to think about making a native mobile app and having to work with the iOS toolchain I don't have bandwidth…

Thank you for the support, and agreed on OS-level integration. At least for me, I have trouble trusting any app unless they are open source and have a transparent codebase for audi…

Awesome, thank you so much for bringing this to my attention and including it in the thread! Always cool to see other open source projects :)

We like Whisper because it's open-source :) but we also support OpenAI 4o-transcribe/ElevenLabs/Deepgram APIs that all use non-Whisper models (presumedly) under the hood. Speaches …

Awesome, thank you so much for bringing this to my attention! Cool to see another open source project that has different implementations :) much to learn with their Parakeet implem…

^Yep, unfortunately, the best option right now seems to pipe the output into another LLM to do some cleanup, which we try to help you do in Whispering. Recent transcription models …

Awesome, thank you so much for bringing this to my attention! Always cool to see other open source projects that have better implementations :) much to learn!

I'm a huge fan of using Whisper hosted on Groq since the transcription is near instantaneous. ElevenLabs' Scribe model is also particularly great with accuracy, and I use it for hi…

Not that I know of. I think the two most prominent open-source models that we hear about are Whisper and Parakeet!

Some lovely folks have left some other open-source projects that implement Parakeet. I would recommend checking those out! I'll also work on my own implementation in the meantime :…

Thanks so much for the support! Really appreciate the feedback, and it’s great to hear the vision resonates. No worries on the STT/TTS experience; it’s just awesome to connect with…

Agreed!

Totally agreed, huge fan of Hyprnote as well. We work on two slightly different problems, but a lot of our tech has overlap, and our missions especially overlap :)

Thank you so much for the support, really means a lot! Happy to hear that it has helped you with translation, and agreed, it's kinda crazy native dictation hasn't caught on yet. In…

Thank you so much for the support! It really means a lot to me. And I can't wait to hear about what you're building. Feel free to DM me and Discord when the time comes :)

The data is currently stored in IndexedDB, and you can currently only access it through the user interface (or digging into system files). However, I'm hoping in future updates, al…