Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by robgough 15 days ago
I built my own because I was frustrated with a lot of the free options. Largely because a lot of them had an upsell to be able to do the secondary post-processing step with an LLM. And it wouldn't pick up things like emojis properly or say numbers. Because of that, I left quite a lot of options in there for customising and adding additional steps, etc. Feel free to take a look: dictator.robgough.net

My initial Mac version actually had three additional steps that you could toggle, obviously at the cost of some speed. That is what the website talks about, although nowadays for my own use I've reduced that to just one step and found that it's pretty great. I've got a new version in test to tidy that up, but still lets you define as many steps as you want.

1 comments

App works great. Parkeeter TDT V3 not so much. I speak Polish and it detects Russian. Also there is no possibility to force language:

> unfortuntately parakeet-v3 model doesn;t recieve or output language id https://github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/Speech/issues/14799#issuecomm...

Also this:

> If you are using Parakeet for English only then you should be using V2. V3 is for several languages and is worse at English only. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48897908