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I tested Wispr on the same 525 dictation clips a month apart (May and again in June) and there's a clear regression: Word Error Rate rose from 9.0% to 11.2% (lower is better). It g…

I tried to benchmark Google’s new on-device dictation app (Eloquent) and basically couldn’t. It drops about half of my dictations. Background: Google shipped a new fully‑local dict…

Not much to say here. It's been driving me nuts for years, so I built it with some help from Claude. I still can't believe the operating system doesn't support this natively. How d…

It's not set up for that, no, though it's theoretically possible! The issues I see are: - Transcription models use beam search to choose the most likely words at each step, taking …

TL;DR: How far can you go with local ML on a Mac? We built a dictation app to find out. It turned out, pretty far! On a stock M-series Mac, end-to-end speech → text → LLM cleanup r…

Not yet, but if all goes according to plan, you should be able to soon!

(that this is all a bit tangential)

I would agree!

It's hard to find unoccupied shortcuts these days! I don't use shortcuts on the numbers often, so I set that as a default. But yes, it's easily configurable in settings so you can …

Sarp! Good to hear from you! I hope life has been good since the Instagram days. Yes, I've noticed the multi-resizing issue with cmd + 8 - I'll look into it this week. Regarding th…

Thanks for the feedback! Fixed these - though the site title seems to be cached...

Addressed towards the end of the post: "Why not Linux or Windows? Gotta start somewhere! If the reception is positive, we’ll work hard to add further support." As you can see from …

We pull the list of available models from that URL! Not sending anything, just fetching so we can display an up-to-date list of models. This the URL that we fetch: https://syntheti…

Yes, that's right. This was definitely not intentional and we are very open to changing it to something more appropriate!

Hey Hackernews- it’s Tim Lenardo and I’m launching v1 of Onit today! Onit is ChatGPT Desktop, but with local mode and support for other model providers (Anthropic, GoogleAI, etc). …

For those curious (and still locked out) here’s direct a comparison of Sora vs. the open-source leaders (HunyuanVideo, Mochi and LTX): https://app.checkbin.dev/snapshots/1f0f3ce3-6…