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Show HN: Whispering – Open-source, local-first dictation you can trust

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Re: Show HN: Whispering – Open-source, local-first dictation you can trust

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Post by chrisweekly »

> "I think there should be an open-source, local-first version of every app, and I would like them all to work together. The idea of Epicenter is to store your data in a folder of plaintext and SQLite, and build a suite of interoperable, local-first tools on top of this shared memory. Everything is totally transparent, so you can trust it."

Yes! This. I have almost no experience w/ tts, but if/when I explore the space, I'll start w/ Whispering -- because of Epicenter. Starred the repo, and will give some thought to other apps that might make sense to contribute there. Bravo, thanks for publishing these and sharing, and congrats on getting into YC! :)

Re: Show HN: Whispering – Open-source, local-first dictation you can trust

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Post by PyWoody »

codybontecou wrote: post #11

Now we just need text to speech so we can truly interact with our computers hands free.

If you're on Mac, you can use `say`, e.g.,

    say "This is a test message" --voice="Bubbles"
EDIT: I'm having way too much fun with this lol

    say "This is a test message" --voice="Organ"
    say "This is a test message" --voice="Good News"
    say "This is a test message" --voice="Bad News"
    say "This is a test message" --voice="Jester"

Re: Show HN: Whispering – Open-source, local-first dictation you can trust

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Post by phainopepla2 »

michael-sumner wrote: post #22

How does this compare to VoiceInk which is also open-source and been there much longer and supports all the features that you have? https://github.com/Beingpax/VoiceInk

One thing that immediately stands out is VoiceInk is macOS only, while Whispering supports Linux and Windows in addition to macOS

Re: Show HN: Whispering – Open-source, local-first dictation you can trust

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Post by satvikpendem »

All these all just Whisper wrappers? I don't get it, the underlying model still isn't as good as paid custom models from companies, is there an actual open source / weights alternative to Whisper for speech to text? I know only of Parakeet.

Re: Show HN: Whispering – Open-source, local-first dictation you can trust

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Post by braden-w »

PyWoody wrote: post #27
codybontecou wrote: post #11

Now we just need text to speech so we can truly interact with our computers hands free.

If you're on Mac, you can use `say`, e.g., say "This is a test message" --voice="Bubbles" EDIT: I'm having way too much fun with this lol say "This is a test message" --voice="Organ" say "This is a test message" --voice="Good News" say "This is a test message" --voice="Bad News" say "This is a test message" --voice="Jester"

LOL that's pretty funny, thank you for the share!
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