[yodon]

Would you consider a lightweight app that just does notification?

Installing and running Whisper locally just to get notifications seems like more resource consumption than some of us are looking for.

Some will want one, some will want both.

[robbomacrae]

Yeah that sounds reasonable. I've been thinking about how to make it more modular. I'll make it so that base TalkiTo doesn't need any heavy libraries.

EDIT: also to be clear whisper doesn't run or even download the model unless it's selected and the user confirms the DL. This can be configured. Google cloud has a free ASR option and ASR can be switched off completely.