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Out of curiosity, what was wrong with Handy? I use it and it works fine.
I use Handy all the time and it is just perfect. I guess OP didn’t chose the right STT model.
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#132Just a few months ago I set-up a serverless gpu service just using whisper.cpp and it detects very well my very-local spanish modisms. I have an active program running on a vps that hits the serverless gpu with the audio when needed because I went with a telegram bot instead of building an app (and paying for dev fees, yikes!).
I wish at some point apple had something like that for in-device STT but so far I'm very happy with the solution.
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It's interesting that the results can be so different depending on the person, the use case and even the microphone used. I use dictation a lot, so I try to stay up to date with the latest models as much as I can. So far, for my needs, nothing could beat Whisper Large v3. I keep hearing that Nvidia Parakeet models are better, but they just don't work as well for me, even though they are unquestionably faster. Things…
To be fair, Mistral doesn't list Ukrainian as one of the supported languages.
I spoke English and Polish to it. It produced Russian or Ukrainian as output.
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I am using it all day as a main dictation model, and I can say it's the best model in terms of accuracy, latency, and formatting I have ever used.
mind if I ask what dictation tool you are using?
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#136I’ve tested at least 20 STT models in a benchmark I’ve set up with German, Italian and English voices from meetings in my company. The voices contained very industry specific words, the languages changed from one sentence to another, sometimes words in a language were mentioned while a discussion was in another. The only local model that satisfies me is Voxtral Mini 3b, the only paid API that is slightly better is el…
Voxtral nomenclature is a bit confusing. I never remember which is newer for exemple (the number of parameters isn’t always helping).
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have another model do a pass to clean it up, saw a demo of local STT where someone did this, can fix a lot of things, especially with gotchas for the STT model in a clean-transcript.md
I think the model can even evaluate itself. If it looks afterward at an output like "do you. Want to get lunch?" in the absence of affirmative evidence that the user wanted it that way, it should be able to see that it goofed.
It's typical to use a special STT model (audio in only), which will not be able to clean up afterwards. If you are using an LLM for the STT part, you're leaving stuff on the table
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#138"Function calling: The model can delegate complex tasks (such as image generation and file analysis) to other Gemini models via function calls. Currently available in the Gemini macOS app." This confused the heck out of me because it makes it sound like the STT model can make function calls in order to execute arbitrary tasks, which wouldn't make any sense. The developer docs ( https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/m…
I assume they're talking about Gemini Live?
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#139I’ve tested at least 20 STT models in a benchmark I’ve set up with German, Italian and English voices from meetings in my company. The voices contained very industry specific words, the languages changed from one sentence to another, sometimes words in a language were mentioned while a discussion was in another. The only local model that satisfies me is Voxtral Mini 3b, the only paid API that is slightly better is el…
Do you use it on a desktop? Mac by any chance? What's your setup? I've been looking to find a simple and fast dictation app for English but almost everything I've tried (from Handy to many apps, eg some with Whisper in their names, after the model I assume) just don't work well. Apple's offering is worse than those though. I even tried with local enhancement models.
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#140I’ve tested at least 20 STT models in a benchmark I’ve set up with German, Italian and English voices from meetings in my company. The voices contained very industry specific words, the languages changed from one sentence to another, sometimes words in a language were mentioned while a discussion was in another. The only local model that satisfies me is Voxtral Mini 3b, the only paid API that is slightly better is el…
Do you use it on a desktop? Mac by any chance? What's your setup? I've been looking to find a simple and fast dictation app for English but almost everything I've tried (from Handy to many apps, eg some with Whisper in their names, after the model I assume) just don't work well. Apple's offering is worse than those though. I even tried with local enhancement models.
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