[Tsarp]

For folks looking to running speech to text locally(in the context of dictation) and dont want to do a subscription there are a few apps that run whisper large turbo locally (optimized to run really fast on apple silicon).

1. https://goodsnooze.gumroad.com/l/macwhisper (dictation + transcription)

2. https://carelesswhisper.app (does dictation only, and does it really well; cheapest)

3. https://superwhisper.com (both local and hosted models + lots of bells and whistles, but much higher pricing)

[sipjca]

I’m the author of the post and will also be releasing an open source speech to text app in the coming weeks. It’s what I’ve been using for months, but packaging it for people

It’s going to be extremely simple, and hopefully easy enough to use. MIT licensed, free

[Void_]

Here’s super fast and cheap alternative to Superwhisper:

https://whispertype.com

[7839284023]

You forgot about https://tryvoiceink.com/

19 Dollar and Open-Source.

[czarofvan]

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.

[DougBTX]

Do any of these support streaming dictation, to show text progressively while dictating?