Comment by shelled

I recently had to use dictation for a few weeks and I was pleasantly surprised that many of the apps (in use/vogue) did support models on my 2021 16GB M1 Pro mac (many of those even supported connecting to a remote or local model endpoint) and at the same time for any worthwhile STT enhancement the model size was hitting higher I would have comfortably wanted. Even though I don't necessarily need dictation any more I intend to keep a custom fully offline setup and try these models (not sure they support live/streaming STT).

If any of you are interested there are apps like https://github.com/altic-dev/FluidVoice (this one's a great app) and this https://sam-pop.github.io/WhisperDictation. The latter, even though it has just 7 stars right now, seems to be more "intuitive". I just hope they expose a way to "connect" to available models on the machine or remotely)