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44 points kartik017 4 hours ago 20 comments

Zizizizz 1 hour ago | parent

This reminds me very much in terms of features as https://github.com/cjpais/Handy https://handy.computer , what's the use case for this over that?

nxpnsv 1 hour ago | parent

They both use parakeet so I guess they would perform similar.

ramraj07 1 hour ago | parent

How good is parakeet (assuming it’s Sota oss) compared to wisprflow? Wisprflow is magical ime

pylotlight 1 hour ago | parent

ye parakeet redux has been my new fav, that and tdt v2 both working well for my own clone app that was made.

oscarteg 1 hour ago | parent

I recently switched to Voiceink which also does similar. I'm trying to find the edge this has over that but can't find it

abyssin 57 minutes ago | parent

VoiceInk took a little time compiling but it's been working flawlessly for the three people that use it now for dictating consultation notes.

aucisson_masque 1 hour ago | parent

How does it compare to handy ?

NJL3000 1 hour ago | parent

This came up a month ago - I forked from something now gone - https://github.com/NickJLange/parrot

And if MacOS 26 does it right - all of this is no longer necessary for us to vibe fork/ code on weekends :-)

P.S. Handy looks slick. May be able to ditch mine

esafak 2 minutes ago | parent

MacOS 27 still has room for improvement; there is a measurable starting latency and error rate.

Na6z 44 minutes ago | parent

This is pretty neat, I built something similar a couple months ago. I'd say try to support Windows or Linux next.

maxpert 40 minutes ago | parent

Been using Handy I am pretty happy but good to see more options, specially OSS.

jasonjmcghee 33 minutes ago | parent

The native / built-in API SpeechAnalyzer (introduced last generation on iOS and MacOS) works quite well.

Are folks finding it lacking / needing alternatives?

throw03172019 15 minutes ago | parent

Voice shortcuts etc

scosman 25 minutes ago | parent

If folks like local-AI dictation, but want it optimized for meetings recordings (like Granola/Otter/Notion) check out Biscotti. Free, local, separates voices, voice identification, AI summaries, etc.

https://github.com/scosman/Biscotti

xnx 21 minutes ago | parent

Seems everyone is cobbling these together. Here's a local-only one from Google: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/google-ai-edge-eloquent/id6756...

epaga 19 minutes ago | parent

I'm a bit confused, isn't "Wispr" a trademarked term? Why would you pick a name that could easily be shut down?

ProofHouse 18 minutes ago | parent

To be honest, I used Wspr so much I only recently started realizing just HOW bad it gets trying to 'improve' your diction, especially coding. I have seen totally opperate directives. I had no idea it was potentially occuring, but it gets past a point where it is WAY to confident in guessing what you meant, sometimes to the extent of changing DON'T to DO, for example.

frenchie4111 17 minutes ago | parent

This is awesome. I really want to get something like this integrated directly into my agent IDE (https://getness.dev).

The main thing I need is some way of auto-sending a "end of message" button (like a newline would do) at the end of the message so that it auto-sends the chat.

Not sure the exact right way to implement that, but it seems like something that could be general purpose. Maybe a setting per-active app?

regularfry 14 minutes ago | parent

Push-to-talk?

gekoxyz 15 minutes ago | parent

I expected dictation to be much more useful on the computer, but since I can type decently fast I find myself using it far less than I expected.