[rcarmo]

Not sure why I should use this instead of the baked-in OS dictation features (which I use almost daily--just double-tap the world key, and you're there). What's the advantage?

[qq66]

I haven't used this one but WisprFlow is vastly better than the built-in functionality on MacOS. Apple is way behind even startups, even for fundamental AI functionality like transcribing speech

[ibero]

WisprFlow has a lot of good recommendations behind it but the fact they used Delve for SOC2 compliance gives me major pause.

[janalsncm]

The fact that a company could slurp up all of your data and then use Delve for their SOC2 is a great reason to use local models.

[jonwinstanley]

I use the baked in Apple transcription and haven't had any issues. But what I do is usually pretty simple.

What makes the others vastly better?

[qq66]

I'm speaking for >1 minute and including bulleted lists, etc. WisprFlow gets all of the bulleted lists formatted correctly, and I'm not saying things like "Bullet 1" -- just speaking as I'd speak to a person.

[MattDamonSpace]

I’ve rarely had macOS TTS produce a sentence I didn’t have to edit

Whisper models I barely bother checking anymore

[rane]

- Way more accurate, especially with technical jargon. Try saying JSON as part of a sentence to macOS dictation and see what comes out.

- macOS dictation mutes other sounds while it's running. This is a deal-breaker for me.