The first goal was just to have fun with it. I wanted to learn more about audio streaming and chunking. I was talking with a friend and said it's "super easy" and so that's how I got here.

The issue I have with the macOS transcribing is that it can never do things like learn slang, change the punctuation based on the input box, filter filler words, etc... It does work and it's primarily what I use on mobile but I just wanted to go a different direction here.

One thing I wanted to do with this project (which I likely won't do) is make it so you can tell it a set of instructions like "Go to Slack and send Tom a Direct message saying that I am going to be 5 minutes late" and it would be able to do that. That's really close to the behavior of Siri but I thought that might be neat.

As many have discussed earlier, if you have an accent, macOS transcribing is not so accurate; on top of that, Apple's transcribing also don't work well if you have a lot of technical terms (for example, if you are transcribing a thesis in physics)