Is it deployed locally or does it send data to your servers?
It’s all local
Handy – Free open source speech-to-text app
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#62Nice. I spent most of Christmas vibe coding with Google Antigravity with one hand while holding a sleeping baby in the other. MacOS built in dictation is OK, but struggles with technical language.
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#63I’ve tried several, including this one, and I’ve settled on VoiceInk (local, one-time payment), and with Parakeet V3 it’s stunningly fast (near-instant) and accurate enough to talk to LLMs/code-agents, in the sense that the slight drop in accuracy relative to Whisper Turbo3 is immaterial since they can “read between the lines” anyway.
My regular cycle is to talk informally to the CLI agent and ask it to “say back to me what you understood”, and it almost always produces a nice clean and clear version. This simultaneously works as confirmation of its understanding and also as a sort of spec which likely helps keep the agent on track.
UPDATE - just tried handy with Parakeet v3, and it works really well too, so I'll use this instead of VoiceInk for a few days. I just also discovered that turning on the "debug" UI with Cmd-shift-D shows additional options like post processing and appending trailing space.
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#64I have dystonia which often stiffens my arms in a way that makes it impossible for me to type on a keyboard. TTS apps like SuperWhisper have proven to be very helpful for me in such situations. I am hoping to get a similar experience out of "Handy" (very apt maming from my perspective). I do, however, wonder if there is a way all these TTS tools can get to the next level. The generated text should not be just a verba…
I made something called `ultraplan`. It's is a CLI tool that records multi-modal context (audio transcription via local Whisper, screenshots, clipboard content, etc.) into a timeline that AI agents like Claude Code can consume. I have a claude skill `/record` that runs the CLI which starts a new recording. I debug, research, etc., then say "finito" (or choose your own stopword). It outputs a markdown file with your t…
Sounds interesting I would love to use it if you get a chance to push to github
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#65As a Mac user, am I missing something? macOS has Dictation built-in, when you short press F5 it should start transcribing your spoken words into text in real time. It even does non-English languages.
Besides being trash as others said, there’s a trade off with real time transcription word by word - there’s no opportunity for an AI to holistically correct/clean up the transcription
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#66Explain to me why a speech-to-text app has 50% of its code in typescript...?
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#67FluidVoice for macOS is pretty handy as well. Open source under Apache License.
https://altic.dev/fluid
https://github.com/altic-dev/FluidVoice
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#68Its great, i have been using it . Two requests though
1. iOS app
2. API option to use against meeting transcription or route audio from Mic .
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s all local
Which model would be the best to use for mandarin? Are there any models on par with Parakeet that are just as fast but also understand Chinese?
also is there a way to make parakeet type more naturally? less capitallization, less punctuation? can this be a setting?
this can already be done via local llm processing the text but surely there is an easier way to do this, right