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Yap – free offline voice dictation for Mac/Windows/Linux (Wispr Flow alt)

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Re: Yap – free offline voice dictation for Mac/Windows/Linux (Wispr Flow alt)

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Post by taffydavid »

I love on-device transcription apps, but this looks like yet another AI generated whisper wrapper. I'm put off by the readme which is clearly LLM generated, with emdash all over the place and bits that smell of user questions turned into talking points.

> Why not the Fn / key? It's the obvious one-finger choice, but on macOS the Fn key emits no real keypress — only a hidden hardware flag — so

And

> macOS permissions (read this if the hotkey "does nothing")

Sorry but I can't see a reason to use this over something tried and tested like Handy, which is free, open source, on-device, does post capture correction and isn't limited to whisper (you can use parakeet v3 which I find way better than whisper)

Re: Yap – free offline voice dictation for Mac/Windows/Linux (Wispr Flow alt)

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Post by d4rkp4ttern »

My current fav STT is Hex, MacOS only:

https://github.com/kitlangton/Hex

Near-instant accurate-enough transcription using local Parakeet V3.

Handy is multi-platform, also great:

https://github.com/cjpais/Handy

Every time a new STT model or app is announced, I see if it displaces Hex for me but so far none have.

I’ll check out Yap though.

Re: Yap – free offline voice dictation for Mac/Windows/Linux (Wispr Flow alt)

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Post by theturtletalks »

d4rkp4ttern wrote: post #5

My current fav STT is Hex, MacOS only: https://github.com/kitlangton/Hex Near-instant accurate-enough transcription using local Parakeet V3. Handy is multi-platform, also great: https://github.com/cjpais/Handy Every time a new STT model or app is announced, I see if it displaces Hex for me but so far none have. I’ll check out Yap though.

Have you tried FluidVoice? Comes close to those 2 imo.

I’m tracking them all here:

https://opensource.builders/alternatives/superwhisper

Re: Yap – free offline voice dictation for Mac/Windows/Linux (Wispr Flow alt)

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Post by d4rkp4ttern »

theturtletalks wrote: post #7
d4rkp4ttern wrote: post #5

My current fav STT is Hex, MacOS only: https://github.com/kitlangton/Hex Near-instant accurate-enough transcription using local Parakeet V3. Handy is multi-platform, also great: https://github.com/cjpais/Handy Every time a new STT model or app is announced, I see if it displaces Hex for me but so far none have. I’ll check out Yap though.

Have you tried FluidVoice? Comes close to those 2 imo. I’m tracking them all here: https://opensource.builders/alternatives/superwhisper

Nice collection! Do you know if any of those can do meeting transcription with turn detection with consistent speaker ID ? Otter killers in other words.

Re: Yap – free offline voice dictation for Mac/Windows/Linux (Wispr Flow alt)

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Post by amanzi »

theturtletalks wrote: post #7
d4rkp4ttern wrote: post #5

My current fav STT is Hex, MacOS only: https://github.com/kitlangton/Hex Near-instant accurate-enough transcription using local Parakeet V3. Handy is multi-platform, also great: https://github.com/cjpais/Handy Every time a new STT model or app is announced, I see if it displaces Hex for me but so far none have. I’ll check out Yap though.

Have you tried FluidVoice? Comes close to those 2 imo. I’m tracking them all here: https://opensource.builders/alternatives/superwhisper

Nice website, but would be great if you could include filters for which operating systems these apps support.
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