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Was searching for this this morning and settled on https://handy.computer/
Thanks for the recommendation! I picked the smallest model (Moonshine Base @ 58MB), and it works great for transcribing English. Surprisingly, it produced a better output (at least I liked its version) than the recommended but heavy model (Parakeet V3 @ 478 MB).
Does anyone know of an effective alternative for Android?
There's also an offline-running software called VoiceInk for macos. No need for groq or external AI. https://github.com/Beingpax/VoiceInk
Was searching for this this morning and settled on https://handy.computer/
Do any of these works as an iOS keyboard to replace the awful voice transcription Apple is currently shipping?
native app uses Parakeet (v2 or V3) on iOS
Since many are asking about apps with simillar capabilities I’m very happy with MacWhisper. Has Parakeet, near instant transcription of my lengthy monologues. All local. Edit: Ah but Parakeet I think isn’t available for free. But very worthwhile single purchase app nonetheless!
I actually got MacWhisper originally for speech to text so I could talk to my machine like a crazy person. I realized I didn't like doing that but the actual killer feature for buying it that I really enjoy is the fully local transcription of meetings, with a nice little button to start recording that pops up when you launch zoom, teams, etc. It means I can safely record meetings and encrypt them locally and keep int…
Been a power user of SuperWhisper and Wispr Flow for a long time and eventually decided to unify those flows - memos & dictations, everything is a file and local first, BYOK
Was searching for this this morning and settled on https://handy.computer/
Big fan of handy and it’s cross platform as well. Parakeet V3 gives the best experience with very fast and accurate-enough transcriptions when talking to AIs that can read between the lines. It does have stuttering issues though. My primary use of these is when talking to coding agents. But a few weeks ago someone on HN pointed me to Hex, which also supports Parakeet-V3 , and incredibly enough, is even faster than Ha…
My comment on this from a month back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46637040
Saved you a click: Mac only and actually Grok; local inference too slow. Won't be free when xAI starts charging.
For macos i found https://github.com/rselbach/jabber and was lately use that, but the iOS where I still need replacement.
I built something similar for Linux (yapyap — push-to-talk with whisper.cpp). The "local is too slow" argument doesn't hold up anymore if you have any GPU at all. whisper large-v3-turbo with CUDA on an RTX card transcribes a full paragraph in under a second. Even on CPU, parakeet is near-instant for short utterances.The "deep context" feature is clever, but screenshotting and sending to a cloud LLM feels like massive…
By "any GPU" you mean a physical, dedicated GPU card, right?
That's not a small requirement, especially on Macs.