I'd love to have a purchase option not tied to the App Store if possible. I don't use an Apple account with my Mac, but I would love to try Trace.
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#12Which Speech-to-Text is used? Is it possible to configure it? This might be crucial for supporting languages other than English - the model that comes built-in with macOS fails completely for German.
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#13I don't see how this is different to literally the dozens of other offline transcription apps, many open source even unlike this one.
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#14Super interesting! How accurate is the local model to transcribe audio compared to other cloud services? E.g. Google Meet, Otter, Granola, etc.
A lot of the available models are Whisper or Faster-Whisper derived and shared across multiple apps. The tier names are often funny... "Tiny" "base" "small" "medium" "large" "large-v2" "large-v3" "large-v3-turbo" -en only variants, etc.
In my experience, medium is often the sweet spot for English accuracy vs speed, especially if following-up with a post-processing pass. The large options are all fine, but can severely slow it down. There are some speed checks on my website if you're curious (link not posted because I don't want to hijack another post's app).
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#15I don't see how this is different to literally the dozens of other offline transcription apps, many open source even unlike this one.
Classic HN. Thanks for keeping it real.
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#16I don't see how this is different to literally the dozens of other offline transcription apps, many open source even unlike this one.
can you share them? I'm looking for a decent open source one
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#17Nice! I really like how many variations on this idea are coming out. MacWhisper used to be great, but is kinda of a buggy mess now.
I'm making my own, for personal use. I did a survey of many and they all (that I could find) skip the fundamentals.
The major issues that I've run into:
- Crash recovery. Most of these apps are incredibly buggy and crash all the time, taking the recorded audio with them. Macwhisper is incredibly bad at this.
- Disk space. Many of these apps save wav files to disk. After a few hours of meetings, you may end up with gigabytes eaten.
- Microphone bleed. People don't always use headphones, the system mic will pick up the speaker sounds, causing duplicate (approximately) transcriptions.
I've yet to find a solution that handles all these correctly, let alone having high quality transcriptions.
Anyway, most of these apps are built around https://github.com/FluidInference/FluidAudio, if anyone is curious. Their readme has a big list of similar apps as well.
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#18Nice! I really like how many variations on this idea are coming out. MacWhisper used to be great, but is kinda of a buggy mess now. I'm making my own, for personal use. I did a survey of many and they all (that I could find) skip the fundamentals. The major issues that I've run into: - Crash recovery. Most of these apps are incredibly buggy and crash all the time, taking the recorded audio with them. Macwhisper is in…
Nice tip on FluidAudio that's the kind of thing I've been looking for. Thanks!
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#19I don't see how this is different to literally the dozens of other offline transcription apps, many open source even unlike this one.
can you share them? I'm looking for a decent open source one
I'm seeing a lot right here: https://github.com/FluidInference/FluidAudio