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Comment by atlgator

4 hours ago

This thread is a support group for people who have each independently built the same macOS speech-to-text app.

In the /r/macapps subreddit, they have huge influx of new apps posts, and the "whisper dictation" is one of the most saturated category. [0]

>“Compare” - This is the most important part. Apps in the most saturated categories (whisper dictation, clipboard managers, wallpaper apps, etc.) must clearly explain their differentiation from existing solutions.

https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1r6d06r/new_post_r...

My name is Cole and I have a speech to text app.

When I most recently abandoned it, the trigger word would fire one time in five.

hahaha I’m glad I’m just a procedurally generated NPC

I built one for cross platform — using parakeet mlx or faster whisper. :)

Yeah, but mine... Oh. Hello. sighs It's been three weeks since I tried to add feature to my version of the app. I don't miss it. I like this new life. Sober.

Oh to be 20-something and do a bunch of free work for your portfolio again

  • I'll have you know that I'm Matt's top contributor to Ghost Pepper and I'm nearly fifty

    But I did it because I wanted it to work exactly the way I wanted it.

    Also, for kicks, I (codex) ported it to Linux. But because my Linux laptop isn't as fast, I've had to use a few tricks to make it fast. https://github.com/obra/pepper-x