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marshalla

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About marshalla

Building MimicScribe (mimicscribe.app) — macOS app with on-device Parakeet ASR, speaker diarization + cloud LLMs. Into voice-forward interfaces, audio ML, latency. github.com/adamsro

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    Nice, how well does WhisperKit work for diarization?

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    lol fair that's very dev of you. The next gen of models will prob one shot my app anyway. I like the idea of having a completely headless auto recording system. I was against it in…

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    Comment #48992014

    I'm building one that finally seems to be reasonably stable https://mimicscribe.app/ . Speaker identification is a huge trick to do on device. I've masked by sentence and capture e…

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    Comment #48499875

    venice.ai? Ok nice I'll check it out. thanks. ya I added the openai compat endpoint, no brainer.

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    Right? I feel like local model support is something that has strong ideological appeal and might influence someones feeling towards the app, but when it comes down to it most peopl…

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    lol that'd be a trick. I'd have it purposely misidentify to cheaper brands to mess with people.

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    Hey thanks! Good call. I had limited success getting Qwen 3.5 9B working for some of the longer prompts that require lots of json output. I feel like completely on-device is so clo…

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    No joke about the indexing feeling slow. Could that be run as a lower priority task? handy app!

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    Matt, Thanks! I just tried Hedy, same concept, also a great tool. It's todos are nice. MimicScribe works well with any Apple silicon Mac so it'll feel snappy on an M1 with 8GB of R…

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    Show HN: On-device transcriber that's 97% accurate at identifying speakers

    I’ve spent the last seven months building a tool I wish I’d had in my previous roles. MimicScribe is a macOS menu bar app that fits the "AI notetaker" category. It has accurate on-…