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

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

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Post by arkensaw »

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…

fun fact: voice typing also worked excellently on Windows Phone, although only in the SMS app

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

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Post by qq66 »

jonwinstanley wrote: post #52
qq66 wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I haven't used this one but WisprFlow is vastly better than the built-in functionality on MacOS. Apple is way behind even startups, even for fundamental AI functionality like transcribing speech

I use the baked in Apple transcription and haven't had any issues. But what I do is usually pretty simple. What makes the others vastly better?

I'm speaking for >1 minute and including bulleted lists, etc. WisprFlow gets all of the bulleted lists formatted correctly, and I'm not saying things like "Bullet 1" -- just speaking as I'd speak to a person.
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