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

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Post by dwayne_dibley »

artdigital wrote: post #158
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…

macOS and iOS can do that to with the baked in dictation. Globe key + D on Mac

yup, this is how I 'type'

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

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Post by vharish »

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…

IMO.. one of the best. It was surprisingly good. Yet they can't even replicate in on their own systems

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

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Post by mememememememo »

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.

My LLM types at 2k WPM. So I ise that to talk to my LLMs

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

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Post by v4nn4 »

theturtletalks wrote: post #109
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'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

The filters selection seems to return a union not an intersection which is a bit confusing, at least to me.

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

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Post by 71bw »

parhamn wrote: post #19

I see a lot of whisper stuff out there. Are these the same old OpenAI whispers or have they been updated heavily? I've been using parakeet v3 which is fantastic (and tiny). Confused why we're still seeing whisper out there, there's been a lot of development.

I'm also wondering whether or not it would be beneficiary for my workload to switch over to Parakeet. Problem is, I'm using a lot of lingo - and in Polish, as well! - so it's not exactly the best case and whisper (v3), so far, works.

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

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Post by dust42 »

artdigital wrote: post #158
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…

macOS and iOS can do that to with the baked in dictation. Globe key + D on Mac

When you activate it you agree that your voice input is sent to Apple. As far as I understand this project runs fully locally. Up to you to decide for whatever suits your needs best.

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

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Post by raybb »

theturtletalks wrote: post #109
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'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

Do any of the apps support taking actions as you talk without having to hit stop?

Like telling it to edit the text or remove a word.

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

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Post by jwr »

I currently use MacWhisper and it is quite good, but it's great to see an alternative, especially as I've been looking to use more recent models!

I hope there will be a way to plug in other models: I currently work mostly with Whisper Large. Parakeet is slightly worse for non-English languages. But there are better recent developments.

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