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

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Post by karimf »

atlgator wrote: post #54

This thread is a support group for people who have each independently built the same macOS speech-to-text app.

In the /r/macapps subreddit, they have huge influx of new apps posts, and the "whisper dictation" is one of the most saturated category. [0]

>“Compare” - This is the most important part. Apps in the most saturated categories (whisper dictation, clipboard managers, wallpaper apps, etc.) must clearly explain their differentiation from existing solutions.

https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1r6d06r/new_post_r...

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

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Post by pmarreck »

goodroot wrote: post #4

Nice one! For Linux folks, I developed https://github.com/goodroot/hyprwhspr . On Linux, there's access to the latest Cohere Transcribe model and it works very, very well. Requires a GPU though. Larger local models generally shouldn't require a subordinate model for clean up. Have you compared WhisperKit to faster-whisper or similar? You might be able to run turbov3 successfully and negate the need for cleanup. Incid…

looks like there's a nearly identically named one for Hyprland

Also, wish it was on nixpkgs, where at least it will be almost guaranteed to build forever =)

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

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Post by semiquaver »

cupcake-unicorn wrote: post #95

https://handy.computer/ already exists?

I have a few qualms with this app:

1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.

2. It doesn't actually replace a USB drive. Most people I know e-mail files to themselves or host them somewhere online to be able to perform presentations, but they still carry a USB drive in case there are connectivity problems. This does not solve the connectivity issue.

3. It does not seem very "viral" or income-generating. I know this is premature at this point, but without charging users for the service, is it reasonable to expect to make money off of this?

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

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Post by fragmede »

atlgator wrote: post #54

This thread is a support group for people who have each independently built the same macOS speech-to-text app.

Yeah, but mine... Oh. Hello. sighs It's been three weeks since I tried to add feature to my version of the app. I don't miss it. I like this new life. Sober.

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

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Post by lxe »

atlgator wrote: post #54

This thread is a support group for people who have each independently built the same macOS speech-to-text app.

hahaha I’m glad I’m just a procedurally generated NPC

I built one for cross platform — using parakeet mlx or faster whisper. :)

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