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I haven't used this one but WisprFlow is vastly better than the built-in functionality on MacOS. Apple is way behind even startups, even for fundamental AI functionality like transcribing speech

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WisprFlow has a lot of good recommendations behind it but the fact they used Delve for SOC2 compliance gives me major pause.

The fact that a company could slurp up all of your data and then use Delve for their SOC2 is a great reason to use local models.

I use the baked in Apple transcription and haven't had any issues. But what I do is usually pretty simple.

What makes the others vastly better?

I’ve rarely had macOS TTS produce a sentence I didn’t have to edit

Whisper models I barely bother checking anymore

I'm speaking for >1 minute and including bulleted lists, etc. WisprFlow gets all of the bulleted lists formatted correctly, and I'm not saying things like "Bullet 1" -- just speaking as I'd speak to a person.

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