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Show HN: FnScribe – Open-source, offline dictation for macOS
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#12https://voxtype.io/ https://tryvoiceink.com/ There's so many of these, at this point I've seen 10 clones make the front page each time as if there never existed local only options before. Also whisper is pretty outdated vs parakeet
It's because vibe coded apps have flooded the internet. This one is no exception. The feedback loop is now real: LLMs train from github on their own produced slop which they feed into the apps people build and publish on github to show off their "skills". In 2 years from now LLMs will become dumber and dumber as the rate of quality code vs. slop will be greatly imbalanced so, naturally, the more slop you have the more probable is that the LLM will use it for its answers. The death of software engineering is real.
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#13- tonnes of these get released daily but I ll give you the guys on HN an awesome idea
- havent seen a single one on HN yet in the last year (i read HN twice a day like brushing my teeth)
- When I input my voice into the mic, I want an AI voice as output converting my words in real time in AI voice
- Use case: gaming, I have a terrible voice and dont want to do a voice over with that but at the same time I would love to if I could
- Know any github projects capable of pulling this off? maybe direct integration as an OBS plugin would make it godtier
Re: Show HN: FnScribe – Open-source, offline dictation for macOS
#14https://voxtype.io/ https://tryvoiceink.com/ There's so many of these, at this point I've seen 10 clones make the front page each time as if there never existed local only options before. Also whisper is pretty outdated vs parakeet
Thanks! Actually starting to move over to a moonshine model. The parakeet models start at ~0.6b params, which adds a lot of startup overhead. Also yeah definitely a ton of them out there. They’re fun to build! Glad to see many other people take it upon themselves to build little local, private utilities.
Re: Show HN: FnScribe – Open-source, offline dictation for macOS
#15also handy.computer is awesome. local. choose your own model. multilingual. bind to any shortcut. works on arm silica
Thanks! Will check it out
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#16https://voxtype.io/ https://tryvoiceink.com/ There's so many of these, at this point I've seen 10 clones make the front page each time as if there never existed local only options before. Also whisper is pretty outdated vs parakeet
It's because vibe coded apps have flooded the internet. This one is no exception. The feedback loop is now real: LLMs train from github on their own produced slop which they feed into the apps people build and publish on github to show off their "skills". In 2 years from now LLMs will become dumber and dumber as the rate of quality code vs. slop will be greatly imbalanced so, naturally, the more slop you have the mor…
I’ve been a software dev for 15 years. Def not trying to show off my skills This is just a little side-project. I have no plans to monetize it. Totally - much of this is vibecoded. It’s been fun building and customizing this for myself rather than paying wisprflow, and thought other people might find it useful
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's because vibe coded apps have flooded the internet. This one is no exception. The feedback loop is now real: LLMs train from github on their own produced slop which they feed into the apps people build and publish on github to show off their "skills". In 2 years from now LLMs will become dumber and dumber as the rate of quality code vs. slop will be greatly imbalanced so, naturally, the more slop you have the mor…
I’ve been a software dev for 15 years. Def not trying to show off my skills This is just a little side-project. I have no plans to monetize it. Totally - much of this is vibecoded. It’s been fun building and customizing this for myself rather than paying wisprflow, and thought other people might find it useful
Sorry about that, didn't mean to attack the person behind it. But anyone can build such an app within a day by prompting Claude.
I think what I was more alluding to was the engineering value such a project brings. But once again, sorry about the messaging.
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#18Are you running the Moonshine model via ONNX/CoreML or native ggml/mlx bindings? how is the first token latency and memory footprint compared against Whisper small.en on Apple Silicon
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#19https://voxtype.io/ https://tryvoiceink.com/ There's so many of these, at this point I've seen 10 clones make the front page each time as if there never existed local only options before. Also whisper is pretty outdated vs parakeet
It's because vibe coded apps have flooded the internet. This one is no exception. The feedback loop is now real: LLMs train from github on their own produced slop which they feed into the apps people build and publish on github to show off their "skills". In 2 years from now LLMs will become dumber and dumber as the rate of quality code vs. slop will be greatly imbalanced so, naturally, the more slop you have the mor…
That model collapse argument assumes pre-training teams are just scraping raw web garbage without curation.
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#20I really need one on the app store or sideload for iOS. I am not a fan of Apple's dictation.