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

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Post by 0xbadcafebee »

Aachen wrote: post #59
0xbadcafebee wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

$ apt install festival $ echo "Hello, World!" | festival --tts Not impressively better, but I find festival slightly more intelligible.

Will give it a spin, thanks!

I also just found something that sounds genuinely realistic: Piper (https://github.com/OHF-Voice/piper1-gpl/tree/main). It's slow but apparently you can run it as a daemon to be faster, and it integrates with Home Assistant and Speech Dispatcher.

  $ sudo apt update
  $ sudo apt install -y python3 python3-pip libsndfile1 ffmpeg
  $ python -m venv piper-tts
  $ ./venv/piper-tts/bin/pip install piper-tts
  $ ./venv/piper-tts/bin/python3 -m piper.download_voices en_US-lessac-medium
  $ ./venv/piper-tts/bin/piper -m en_US-lessac-medium -- 'This will play on your speakers.'
To manage the install graphically, you can use Pied (https://pied.mikeasoft.com/), which has a snap and a flatpak. That one's really cool because you can choose the voice graphically which makes it easy to try them out or switch voices. To play sound you just use "spd-say 'Hello, world!'"

More crazy: Home Assistant did a "Year of Voice" project (https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2022/12/20/year-of-voice/) that culminated in a real open-source voice assistant product (https://www.home-assistant.io/voice-pe/) !!! And it's only $60??

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

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Post by g48ywsJk6w48 »

Thank you for sharing such a great product. Last week after getting fed up with a lot of slow commercial products and wrote my own similar app that works locally in the loop and can record everything I say at the push of a button, transcribe it and put this into the app itself. And for me it was really important to create a second mode so I could speak everything I want in my mother tongue and that gets translated into English automatically. Of course, it all works with formatting, with the placement of commas, quote, etc. It is hard to believe that this hasn't been done in a native dictation app on macOS yet.

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

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Post by Brajeshwar »

I’m beginning to like the idea in this space — local first with a backup with your own tool. Recently, https://hyprnote.com was popular here on Hacker News and it is pretty good. They also do the same, works local-first but you can use your preferred tool too.

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

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Post by jryio »

Does this functionality exist on iOS ? I'm looking for an iOS app that wraps Parakeet or whisper in a custom iOS keyboard.

That way I can switch to the dictation keyboard, press dictate, and have the transcription inserted in any application (first or third party).

MacWhisper is fantastic for macOS system dictation but the same abilities don't exist on iOS yet. The native iOS dictation is quite good but not as accurate with bespoke technical words / acronyms as Whisper cpp.

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

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Post by nchudleigh »

jryio wrote: post #85

Does this functionality exist on iOS ? I'm looking for an iOS app that wraps Parakeet or whisper in a custom iOS keyboard. That way I can switch to the dictation keyboard, press dictate, and have the transcription inserted in any application (first or third party). MacWhisper is fantastic for macOS system dictation but the same abilities don't exist on iOS yet. The native iOS dictation is quite good but not as accura…

superwhisper has that functionality.

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

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Post by braden-w »

dumbmrblah wrote: post #8

I’ve been using whispering for about a year now, it has really changed how I interact with the computer. I make sure to buy mice or keyboards that have programmable hotkeys so that I can use the shortcuts for whispering. I can’t go back to regular typing at this point, just feels super inefficient. Thanks again for all your hard work!

Thank you so much for your support! It really means a lot :) Happy to hear that it's helped you, and keep in touch if you ever have any issues!

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

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Post by braden-w »

ayushrodrigues wrote: post #31

I've been interested in a tool like this for a while. I currently have tried whisprflow and aqua voice but wanted to use my API key and store more context locally. How does all the data get stored and how can I access it?

The data is currently stored in IndexedDB, and you can currently only access it through the user interface (or digging into system files). However, I'm hoping in future updates, all of the transcriptions will instead be stored as markdown files in your local file system. More on that later!

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

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Post by braden-w »

Jarwain wrote: post #76

Yes yes yes please so much yes. I love the idea of epicenter. I love open source local-first software. Something I've been hacking on for a minute would fit so well, if encryption wasn't a requirement for the profit model. But uh yes thank you for making my life easier, and I hope to return the favor soon

Thank you so much for the support! It really means a lot to me. And I can't wait to hear about what you're building. Feel free to DM me and Discord when the time comes :)

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

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Post by braden-w »

g48ywsJk6w48 wrote: post #83

Thank you for sharing such a great product. Last week after getting fed up with a lot of slow commercial products and wrote my own similar app that works locally in the loop and can record everything I say at the push of a button, transcribe it and put this into the app itself. And for me it was really important to create a second mode so I could speak everything I want in my mother tongue and that gets translated in…

Thank you so much for the support, really means a lot! Happy to hear that it has helped you with translation, and agreed, it's kinda crazy native dictation hasn't caught on yet. In the meantime, we have OSS to fill in the gaps.
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