Comment by benatkin
16 hours ago
To save a click, it's just a fancy front end for Whisper plus a weaker CPU-only model. It has a demo video that seems impressive, but the speech is careful to sound casual while having no meaningful flaws that would cause it to mess up. If you want to make a speech to speech tool, which is what this post asks about, it would make more sense to go straight to Whisper.
I use it, sponsor it, and did a small pr. One of its goals is to be the most “forkable” starting point if i recall. But yes its just voice input. It’s meaningfully better than the mac dictation for me.
you can use gpu too. i have to admit the app is very easy to use and super convenient. kudos to creator
Yes, and with GPU, it's Whisper, which has been mentioned elsewhere in this article's comments. I mean that handy.computer provides the other option as a fallback for those who can't or don't want to use the GPU.