[konaraddi]

That’s awesome! Do you know how it compares to Handy? Handy is open source and local only too. It’s been around a while and what I’ve been using.

https://github.com/cjpais/handy

[JohnPDickerson]

Handy is an awesome project, highly recommended - many of our engineers and PMs use it! CJ, Handy's creator, recently joined us as a Builder in Residence at Mozilla.ai. So for those interested in deploying a more raw/lightweight approach to local speech-to-text (or other multimodal) models, feel free to check out llamafile - which includes whisperfile, a single-file whisper.cpp + cosmopolitan framework-based executable. We're hoping to build some bridges between the two projects as well. https://github.com/mozilla-ai/llamafile

[cootsnuck]

Yup, Handy is the one that made me stop looking for local open source alternatives to Wispr Flow.

I'll give a shoutout as well to Glimpse: https://github.com/LegendarySpy/Glimpse

[vunderba]

I’d also be interested to know what the impetus was for developing ghost-pepper, which looks relatively recent, given that Handy exists and has been pretty well received.

Extra bonus is that Handy lets add an automatic LLM post-processor. This is very handy for the Parakeet V3 model, which can sometimes have issues where it repeats words or makes recognition errors for example, duplicating the recognition of a single word a dozen dozen dozen dozen dozen dozen dozen dozen times.

[rob]

Yep. Using Handy with Parakeet v3 + a custom coding-tailored prompt to post-process on my 2019 Intel Mac and it's been working great.

Once in a while it will only output a literal space instead of the actual translation, but if I go into the 'history' page the translation is there for me to copy and paste manually. Maybe some pasting bug.

[alasano]

I think it's the same reasoning for anything these days.

"You know what would be useful?" followed by asking your LLM of choice to implement it.

Then again for a lot of scenarios it's your slop or someone else's slop.

I think the only difference is that I keep my own slop tools private.

[swaptr]

Handy is awesome! I used it for quite a while before Claude Code added voice support. Solid software, very good linux and mac integration. Shoutout to Parakeet models as well, extremely fast and solid models for their relatively modest memory requirements.

[kwakubiney]

I love it. I use it all the time to communicate to my agents via opencode.

[youniverse]

I love and have been using handy for a while too, what we need is this for mobile apps I don't think there's any free apps and native dictation is not always fully local and not as good.

[olup]

I use handy all day long as a software engineer, and recommended it to all of my team members. I love it.

[stavros]

Handy is fantastic.