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czarofvan

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czarofvan··on Wispr Flow Is Tracking Every App/URL You Visit and Taking Screenshots
there are numerous options that run locally and work just fine for dictation

https://superwhisper.com https://handy.computer https://carelesswhisper.com

czarofvan··on ANN v3: 200ms p99 query latency over 100B vectors
Turbopuffer team really cooking!
czarofvan··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)
Would be cool to get a wasm build that runs fully on browser
czarofvan··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)
Are you having lawyers getting of MS Word. Ive tried in the past with no success.

But this is really cool. Its definitely a problem they have.

czarofvan··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
Any reason to not use flutter flow with all the AI stuff?
czarofvan··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
Very different from all the magic mirror sort of solutions. Nice!
czarofvan··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
Is this opensource or just open eco system?
czarofvan··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
Damn how is the docker image only 4Mb. Even with the docker slim images they typically are atleast double digit. Nice!
czarofvan··on Apple's New Speech APIs Outpace Whisper for Fast Transcription
WER scores?
czarofvan··on Mary Meeker's first Trends report since 2019, focused on AI
I think people who realize its not about avoiding inconvenience but a tool that will make life significantly easier will kost likely pay.

Just like paying for a smartphone or data or broadband.

czarofvan··on I turned a 40 year old Apple Mouse into a speech to text button
I've looked at the codebase. The ones I listed do a significant amount of audio processing to get better transcripts, avoid the "Thank you" issues with whisper large turbo, handle bluetooth and noisy environments.

Hopefully VoiceInk gets there. It is a neat project and really well done for a first time dev but rough around the edges. Careless is ~20$ and if you just need dictation is the best option.

czarofvan··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
Are these running whisper underneath?