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Re: Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS

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Post by coldfoundry »

__mharrison__ wrote: post #35

Cool, I've been doing a lot of "coding" (and other typing tasks) recently by tapping a button on my Stream Deck. It starts recording me until I tap it again. At which point, it transcribes the recording and plops it into the paste buffer. The button next to it pastes when I press it. If I press it again, it hits the enter command. You can get a lot done with two buttons.

This is exactly what I am building right now, Stream Deck with two buttons too (push to talk and enter)! It's a sweet little pet project, and has been a blast to build so far. Excited to finally add it to my workflow once its working well.

Re: Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS

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Post by morelikeborelax »

MegagramEnjoyer wrote: post #121
semiquaver wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have a few qualms with this app: 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software. 2. It doesn't actually replace a USB drive. Most people I know e-mail files to themselves or host them s…

why does it need to generate money?

This is the reply that was posted when Dropbox was first shown off on HN. It's a joke :)

Re: Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS

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Post by perelin »

bytesandbits wrote: post #115
theturtletalks wrote: post #109

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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

Handy with parakeet is pretty awesome by the way!

Agree. Slept on.

Wish they would do an ios version, but the creator already kind of dismissed it.

Re: Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS

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Post by perelin »

atlgator wrote: post #54

This thread is a support group for people who have each independently built the same macOS speech-to-text app.

I recently attended a agentic SWE workshop and the starter project was this, whispr style, local voice dictation app. Took everybody around 30mins. tbh: i was kinda impressed.

Re: Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS

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Post by ArlenBales »

primaprashant wrote: post #47

Speech-to-text has become integral part of my dev flow especially for dictating detailed prompts to LLMs and coding agents. I have collected the best open-source voice typing tools categorized by platform in this awesome-style GitHub repo. Hope you all find this useful! https://github.com/primaprashant/awesome-voice-typing

Can you explain how exactly dictation is used for development? I type about 120 WPM so typing is always going to be way faster for me than talking. Aside for accessibility, is dictation development for slower typers or is it more so you can relax on a couch while vibe coding? If this comes off as condescension it's not intended, I am genuinely out of the loop here.

Re: Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS

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Post by KerrickStaley »

ArlenBales wrote: post #147
primaprashant wrote: post #47

Speech-to-text has become integral part of my dev flow especially for dictating detailed prompts to LLMs and coding agents. I have collected the best open-source voice typing tools categorized by platform in this awesome-style GitHub repo. Hope you all find this useful! https://github.com/primaprashant/awesome-voice-typing

Can you explain how exactly dictation is used for development? I type about 120 WPM so typing is always going to be way faster for me than talking. Aside for accessibility, is dictation development for slower typers or is it more so you can relax on a couch while vibe coding? If this comes off as condescension it's not intended, I am genuinely out of the loop here.

I think most people can speak faster than 120 WPM. For example this site says I speak at 343 WPM https://www.typingmaster.com/speech-speed-test/, and I self-measure 222 WPM on dense technical text.

Re: Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS

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Post by thakoppno »

KerrickStaley wrote: post #148
ArlenBales wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you explain how exactly dictation is used for development? I type about 120 WPM so typing is always going to be way faster for me than talking. Aside for accessibility, is dictation development for slower typers or is it more so you can relax on a couch while vibe coding? If this comes off as condescension it's not intended, I am genuinely out of the loop here.

I think most people can speak faster than 120 WPM. For example this site says I speak at 343 WPM https://www.typingmaster.com/speech-speed-test/ , and I self-measure 222 WPM on dense technical text.

Micro machines guy could be vibe coding at an absurd rate.

Re: Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS

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Post by rudhdb773b »

com2kid wrote: post #81
arkensaw wrote: post #77

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…

Microsoft OneNote had this back in 2007 or so, granted the speech to text model wasn't nearly as advanced as they are now. I was actually on the OneNote team when they were transitioning to an online only transcription model because there was no one left to maintain the on device legacy system. It wasn't any sort of planned technical direction, just a lack of anyone wanting to maintain the old system.

I remember trying out some voice-to-text around 2002 that I believe was included with Windows XP.. or maybe Office?

You had to go through some training exercises to tune it to your voice, but then it worked fairly well for transcription or even interacting with applications.

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