How is this different than Hex?
Show HN: FnScribe – Open-source, offline dictation for macOS
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I did AEC and other DSP to ensure good audio quality.
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#24https://voxtype.io/ https://tryvoiceink.com/ There's so many of these, at this point I've seen 10 clones make the front page each time as if there never existed local only options before. Also whisper is pretty outdated vs parakeet
It's because vibe coded apps have flooded the internet. This one is no exception. The feedback loop is now real: LLMs train from github on their own produced slop which they feed into the apps people build and publish on github to show off their "skills". In 2 years from now LLMs will become dumber and dumber as the rate of quality code vs. slop will be greatly imbalanced so, naturally, the more slop you have the mor…
what is the problem with the vibe coding? As long as it works?
Even before AI age we have compiler and auto complete
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#25Are you aware of https://handy.computer/ ?
Or the excellent Ghost Pepper*, or many, many other options.
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#26Is it multilingual?
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#27Are you aware of https://handy.computer/ ?
Or https://github.com/FrigadeHQ/yap which is the only one I've seen so far that uses the new/improved speech-to-text API in MacOS 26 that outperforms the Whisper models. I expect most dictation software is going to start supporting the local API pretty soon, it's free real estate.
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#28So many of these apps in fact that the relevant subreddit has a literal spreadsheet to keep track of them all and if memory serves last time I checked, there were over two dozen entries.
Does no one even check the space before building an app these days? This is almost literally the MOST saturated Mac app in existence…
In fact I will go farther. It is actively bad to release something like this, because it clogs up the space and makes picking an app more difficult for everyone just by virtue of its mere existence adding to cognitive load.
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