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Great, just experimenting to see which is better voice apps to use for my Claude Code cli, on my Mac. for now settled with /voice command. will try Yap. It will be good to have an option to add custom voice commands, let say I want to open an app, or go to folder, that can be plugged, apart from transcription. Not sure if that is deviation, for Yap, love to have that kind of feature.
I mostly use the MacWhisper app until now, but I got frustrated by its slow development and lack of focus and dictation. So I tried the free TypeWhisper app. It works very well, but then I tested multiple models and my conclusion was that one cannot beat the Whisper Large v3 model for accuracy. I tried Qwen ASR (very good, but only for English), Voxtral (spoke Polish to it and it wrote Russian, BIG oopsie), Parakeet TDT 3 (very fast, but sometimes inaccurate).
I got frustrated by the speed of the Whisper Large model. So I spent an hour with AI benchmarking, testing and developing a new plugin. Turns out that on a modern Mac with a good GPU you can run the Whisper Large model at roughly the same speed as the tiny Parakeet model. 2-3x faster than what other apps ship. It's just that nobody bothered.
So, I am now happily dictating into TypeWhisper and then feeding the dictated text into a local gemma-4-26b-a4b-qat LLM for corrections. Everything happens instantly.
- Remove the presence of the Dock icon. Yap is the kind of app you just want as a menu bar utility. Like Whisper.
- Add a "Settings..." menu item to the main Yap menu with `Command-,` as a shortcut. This will align it with other apps.
- I couldn't enter F13 as a shortcut.
- I saw there's a transcript history of input. I kind of don't want that to be there. I believe input should be ephemeral and not logged.
Couple of suggestions/remarks: - Remove the presence of the Dock icon. Yap is the kind of app you just want as a menu bar utility. Like Whisper. - Add a "Settings..." menu item to the main Yap menu with `Command-,` as a shortcut. This will align it with other apps. - I couldn't enter F13 as a shortcut. - I saw there's a transcript history of input. I kind of don't want that to be there. I believe input should be ephe…
And interesting re: history - it does have the option to clear, but you’d want that as a setting?
Trying to keep the amount of settings to a minimum - personally finding it overwhelming when apps have too many bells and whistles lol
I do see the input being listed to — there's an audio graph animated as I speak (~US English), though it appears to be late in picking up my speech. Only my second "test?" is represented in the graph as it moves leftwards.
I went through all the permissions, they show as checked.
I also had a crash once, I've submitted the crash report.
Using the DMG from GitHub.
Couple of suggestions/remarks: - Remove the presence of the Dock icon. Yap is the kind of app you just want as a menu bar utility. Like Whisper. - Add a "Settings..." menu item to the main Yap menu with `Command-,` as a shortcut. This will align it with other apps. - I couldn't enter F13 as a shortcut. - I saw there's a transcript history of input. I kind of don't want that to be there. I believe input should be ephe…
Thank you for this feedback! Heard from other folks the menu bar is redundant too - will kill it in the next update and fix the F13 issue. And interesting re: history - it does have the option to clear, but you’d want that as a setting? Trying to keep the amount of settings to a minimum - personally finding it overwhelming when apps have too many bells and whistles lol
W.r.t. the history — I'm just saying I don't want my input to be logged at all. It has no utility. It can be discarded as soon as it's pasted. I don't want to maintain a log by pressing Clear every now and then.