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Ask HN: Is there demand for a local-first live transcription tool?

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Re: Ask HN: Is there demand for a local-first live transcription tool?

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The concern I have for commercialising this product is that there's a very high chance Apple will roll this out as a feature in macOS 17 or 18. It seems like a natural evolution of Apple Intelligence. Edit: Just noticed that Apple Notes in Sequoia already has "Live audio transcription"

It’s a good point. I briefly looked at their GUI and it’s very tied to the Apple Notes surface. It’s a good way to provide real time transcription to the masses, but their UX and speed leaves a lot to be desired.

Why do we have so many custom notes app when we can just use Apple Notes?

Re: Ask HN: Is there demand for a local-first live transcription tool?

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What model are you using? Whisper Turbo can do real time transcription and there are implementations that are pretty fast.

I’m using Whisper medium.en. I’ll check out Turbo, thanks! Looks like it’s released last month. My solution is pretty model agnostic. If Turbo is indeed as fast as they advertised with lower WER than small.en, then it will supercharge my solution as well (it’s already pretty fast and accurate).
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