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Are you aware of https://handy.computer/?

Or https://github.com/FrigadeHQ/yap which is the only one I've seen so far that uses the new/improved speech-to-text API in MacOS 26 that outperforms the Whisper models. I expect most dictation software is going to start supporting the local API pretty soon, it's free real estate.

Or the excellent Ghost Pepper*, or many, many other options.

*https://matthartman.github.io/ghost-pepper/

there's one of these just about every other week since early this year

i think it's incredible because however saturated I feel this space has become, highly likely the vast majority of the world has no idea how good models have become, let alone local models

I've added local voice support for all apps/webapps I've built this year

Local TTS is on the cusp of a breakout too, basically a year behind ASR imo in terms of adoption, understanding, size and quality

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