Show HN: BetterWispr – Free, open-source dictation for Mac

 (betterwispr.com)

34 points | by kartik017 4 hours ago

9 comments

  • xnx 1 minute ago
    Seems everyone is cobbling these together. Here's a local-only one from Google: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/google-ai-edge-eloquent/id6756...
  • scosman 5 minutes ago
    If folks like local-AI dictation, but want it optimized for meetings recordings (like Granola/Otter/Notion) check out Biscotti. Free, local, separates voices, voice identification, AI summaries, etc.

    https://github.com/scosman/Biscotti

  • maxpert 20 minutes ago
    Been using Handy I am pretty happy but good to see more options, specially OSS.
  • Zizizizz 1 hour ago
    This reminds me very much in terms of features as https://github.com/cjpais/Handy https://handy.computer , what's the use case for this over that?
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    • oscarteg 59 minutes ago
      I recently switched to Voiceink which also does similar. I'm trying to find the edge this has over that but can't find it
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      • abyssin 37 minutes ago
        VoiceInk took a little time compiling but it's been working flawlessly for the three people that use it now for dictating consultation notes.
    • nxpnsv 1 hour ago
      They both use parakeet so I guess they would perform similar.
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      • ramraj07 54 minutes ago
        How good is parakeet (assuming it’s Sota oss) compared to wisprflow? Wisprflow is magical ime
      • pylotlight 40 minutes ago
        ye parakeet redux has been my new fav, that and tdt v2 both working well for my own clone app that was made.
  • jasonjmcghee 13 minutes ago
    The native / built-in API SpeechAnalyzer (introduced last generation on iOS and MacOS) works quite well.

    Are folks finding it lacking / needing alternatives?

  • NJL3000 53 minutes ago
    This came up a month ago - I forked from something now gone - https://github.com/NickJLange/parrot

    And if MacOS 26 does it right - all of this is no longer necessary for us to vibe fork/ code on weekends :-)

    P.S. Handy looks slick. May be able to ditch mine

  • Na6z 24 minutes ago
    This is pretty neat, I built something similar a couple months ago. I'd say try to support Windows or Linux next.
  • aucisson_masque 1 hour ago
    How does it compare to handy ?
  • kartik017 4 hours ago
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