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Re: Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue

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Post by lemming »

zachlatta wrote: post #17
digitalbase wrote: post #14

Was searching for this this morning and settled on https://handy.computer/

I just learned about Handy in this thread and it looks great! I think the biggest difference between FreeFlow and Handy is that FreeFlow implements what Monologue calls "deep context", where it post-processes the raw transcription with context from your currently open window. This fixes misspelled names if you're replying to an email / makes sure technical terms are spelled right / etc. The original hope for FreeFlow…

Could you go into a little more detail about the deep context - what does it grab, and which model is used to process it? Are you also using a groq model for the transcription?

Re: Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue

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Post by drooby »

I just vibe coded a my own NaturalReader replacement. The subscription was $110/year... and I just canceled it.

Chatterbox TTS (from Resemble AI) does the voice generation, WhisperX gives word-level timestamps so you can click any word to jump, and FastAPI ties it all together with SSE streaming so audio starts playing before the whole thing is done generating.

There's a ~5s buffer up front while the first chunk generates, but after that each chunk streams in faster than realtime. So playback rarely stalls.

It took about 4 hours today... wild.

Re: Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue

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Post by michaelbuckbee »

muratsu wrote: post #33

For those using something like this daily, what key combinations do you use to record and cancel. I’m using my capslock right now but was curious about others

I have a Stream Deck and made a dedicated button for this. So I tap the button speak and then tap it again and it pastes into wherever my cursor was at.

And then I set the button right below that as the enter key so it feels mostly handsoff the keyboard.

Re: Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue

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Post by qingcharles »

muratsu wrote: post #33

For those using something like this daily, what key combinations do you use to record and cancel. I’m using my capslock right now but was curious about others

Someone told me the other day I should use a foot pedal, and then I remembered I already had an Elgato one under my desk connected with my Stream Deck. I got it very cheap used on eBay. So, that's an option too.

Re: Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue

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Post by sathish316 »

To build your own STT (speech-to-text) with a local model and and modify it, just ask Claude code to build it for you with this workflow.

F12 -> sox for recording -> temp.wav -> faster-whisper -> pbcopy -> notify-send to know what’s happening

https://github.com/sathish316/soupawhisper

I found a Linux version with a similar workflow and forked it to build the Mac version. It look less than 15 mins to ask Claude to modify it as per my needs.

F12 Press → arecord (ALSA) → temp.wav → faster-whisper → xclip + xdotool

https://github.com/ksred/soupawhisper

Thanks to faster-whisper and local models using quantization, I use it in all places where I was previously using Superwhisper in Docs, Terminal etc.

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