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This thread is a support group for people who have each independently built the same macOS speech-to-text app.
I'm tracking them all here: https://opensource.builders/alternatives/superwhisper Just added Ghost Pepper, and you can actually create a skill.md with the features you need to build your own
how does this compare to macos built in siri TTS, in quality and in privacy?
Exactly my question. I double-tap the control button and macOS does native, local TTS dictation pretty well. (Similar to Keyboard > Enable Dictation setting on iOS.) The macOS built-in TTS (dictation) seems better than all the 3rd party, local apps I tried in the past that people raved about. I have tried several. Is this better somehow? If the 3rd party apps did streaming with typing in place and corrections within…
This is great, and I'm not knocking it, but every time I see these apps it reminds me of my phone. My 2021 Google Pixel 6, when offline, can transcribe speech to text, and also corrects things contextually. it can make a mistake, and as I continue to speak, it will go back and correct something earlier in the sentence. What tech does Google have shoved in there that predates Whisper and Qwen by five years? And why do…
The accuracy is much lower though. I've switched away from Gboard to Futo on Android and exclusively use MacWhisper on MacOS instead of the default Apple transcription model.
In English and Hebrew it stops after half a dozen words, and those words must be spoken slowly and mechanically for it to work at all. Russian and Arabic are right out - I can't coax any coherent sentence out of it.
I've gone through all permutations of relevant settings, such as "Faster Voice Dictation" (translated from Hebrew,I don't know what the original English option is called). I think there used to be an option for Online or Offline transcription, but that option is gone now.
This is ridiculous - I tried to copy the version information and there is no way to copy it in-app. Let's try the S24 OCR feature...
17.0.10.880768217 release-arm64-v8a 175712590 ראשית (en_GB) 2025090100 = גרסה עדכני Primary on-device: No packs Fallback on-device: Packs: ru-RU: 200
I'll try to install the English, Hebrew, and Arabic packs, though I'm certain that I've installed them already.
I only spent 10 minutes with Handy, and a similar amount of time with SuperWhisper, so pretty ignorant. I tried it both with composing this comment, and in a programming session with Codex. I was slightly frustrated to not be hands free, instead of typing, my hands were having to press and release a talk button (option-space in handy, right-command in superwhisper), but then I couldn't submit, so I still had to click enter with Codex.
Additionally, for composing this message, I'm using the keyboard a ton because there's no way I can find to correct text I've typed. Do other people get really reliable and don't need backspace anymore? Or.... what text do you not care enough to edit? Notes maybe?
My point of comparison is using Dragon like 15 years ago. TBH, while the recognition is better (much better) on handy/superwhisper, everything else felt MUCH worse. With dragon, you are (were?) totally hands free, you see text as you say it, and you could edit text really easily vocally when it made a mistake (which it did a fair bit, admittedly). And you could press enter and pretty functionally navigate w/o a keyboard too.
Its weird to see all these apps, and they all have the same limitations?
This thread is a support group for people who have each independently built the same macOS speech-to-text app.
Nice one! For Linux folks, I developed https://github.com/goodroot/hyprwhspr . On Linux, there's access to the latest Cohere Transcribe model and it works very, very well. Requires a GPU though. Larger local models generally shouldn't require a subordinate model for clean up. Have you compared WhisperKit to faster-whisper or similar? You might be able to run turbov3 successfully and negate the need for cleanup. Incid…
This thread is a support group for people who have each independently built the same macOS speech-to-text app.
This is the unfortunate real face of open source. So many devs each making little sandcastles on their own when if efforts were combined, we could have had something truly solid and sustainable, instead of a litany of 90% there apps each missing something or the other, leaving people ending up using WisprFlow etc.
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I'm tracking them all here: https://opensource.builders/alternatives/superwhisper Just added Ghost Pepper, and you can actually create a skill.md with the features you need to build your own
So... a vibe slop index to keep track of all the vibe slop apps? The cherry on top: it’s completely broken! Enable the Context Awareness filter, the list shrinks. Now enable the Auto-pasting filter, the list grows back.
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I'm tracking them all here: https://opensource.builders/alternatives/superwhisper Just added Ghost Pepper, and you can actually create a skill.md with the features you need to build your own
So... a vibe slop index to keep track of all the vibe slop apps? The cherry on top: it’s completely broken! Enable the Context Awareness filter, the list shrinks. Now enable the Auto-pasting filter, the list grows back.