Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue
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Re: Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue
#2Sounds like there's plenty of interest in those kind of tools. I'm not a huge fun API transcriptions given great local models.
I build https://github.com/bwarzecha/Axii to keep EVERYTHING locally and be fully open source - can be easily used at any company. No data send anywhere.
Re: Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue
#3Could you make it use Parakeet? That's an offline model that runs very quickly even without a GPU, so you could get much lower latency than using an API.
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#5Sounds like there's plenty of interest in those kind of tools. I'm not a huge fun API transcriptions given great local models. I build https://github.com/bwarzecha/Axii to keep EVERYTHING locally and be fully open source - can be easily used at any company. No data send anywhere.
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Re: Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue
#6MacOS only. May this help you skip a click.
Re: Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue
#7Could you make it use Parakeet? That's an offline model that runs very quickly even without a GPU, so you could get much lower latency than using an API.
I love this idea, and originally planned to build it using local models, but to have post-processing (that's where you get correctly spelled names when replying to emails / etc), you need to have a local LLM too.
If you do that, the total pipeline takes too long for the UX to be good (5-10 seconds per transcription instead of Some day!
Re: Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue
#8Nice! I vibe coded the same this weekend but for OpenAI however less polished https://github.com/sonu27/voicebardictate
Re: Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue
#9Could you make it use Parakeet? That's an offline model that runs very quickly even without a GPU, so you could get much lower latency than using an API.
https://github.com/cjpais/Handy
It’s free and offline
Re: Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue
#10Could you make it use Parakeet? That's an offline model that runs very quickly even without a GPU, so you could get much lower latency than using an API.
https://github.com/cjpais/Handy It’s free and offline
Wow, Handy looks really great and super polished. Demo at https://handy.computer/