alt Hacker NewsThis thread is a support group for people who have each independently built the same macOS speech-to-text app.
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In the /r/macapps subreddit, they have huge influx of new apps posts, and the "whisper dictation" is one of the most saturated category. [0]
>“Compare” - This is the most important part. Apps in the most saturated categories (whisper dictation, clipboard managers, wallpaper apps, etc.) must clearly explain their differentiation from existing solutions.
https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1r6d06r/new_post_r...
I cobbled my own together one night before I came across the thoughtfully-built KeyVox and got to talking shop with its creator. Our cups runneth over. https://github.com/macmixing/keyvox/
I did mine on nixOS with a nice little indicator built into Noctalia.
It's remarkable how similar its performance is to Wispr Flow... and it runs locally...
In the most possible Apple fashion, I am waiting for MacOS 27 or 28 to have this builtin.
NGL had me chuckling a bit there when I remembered I had one of these to code on my backlog
hahaha I’m glad I’m just a procedurally generated NPC
I built one for cross platform — using parakeet mlx or faster whisper. :)
I recently attended a agentic SWE workshop and the starter project was this, whispr style, local voice dictation app. Took everybody around 30mins. tbh: i was kinda impressed.
My name is Cole and I have a speech to text app.
When I most recently abandoned it, the trigger word would fire one time in five.
Yeah, but mine... Oh. Hello. sighs It's been three weeks since I tried to add feature to my version of the app. I don't miss it. I like this new life. Sober.
Are there any better than Superwhisper? Because I haven't found any.
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windows (kotlin multi platform) => https://github.com/maceip/daydream
parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2
Oh to be 20-something and do a bunch of free work for your portfolio again
github.com/randomm/kuiskaus
Its gotten so bad that its a meme on the macapps subreddit.
This is the unfortunate real face of open source. So many devs each making little sandcastles on their own when if efforts were combined, we could have had something truly solid and sustainable, instead of a litany of 90% there apps each missing something or the other, leaving people ending up using WisprFlow etc.
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I'm tracking them all here:
https://opensource.builders/alternatives/superwhisper
Just added Ghost Pepper, and you can actually create a skill.md with the features you need to build your own