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A comment on Ask HN: Is there demand for a local-first live transcription tool?.

Re:Ask HN: Is there demand for a local-first live transcript... by talldayo on Sunday November 10, 2024 @06:41PM (#42103414)
> If interest is high, commercializing it as a product would be a next step

Why? OpenAI's Whisper is a free local model with native GUIs on most operating systems. I wrote one myself in a weekend, it's one of hundreds of similar GUIs that exist.

What functionality would you be offering that people can't otherwise get for free? This is a pretty competitive space, trying to sell a TUI is going to leave you gravely disappointed by the sales (unless it's extremely impressive).

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Re:Ask HN: Is there demand for a local-first live transcript... by uohzxela on Sunday November 10, 2024 @06:57PM (#42103477)
Most of the free Whisper GUI offerings do not provide real-time transcription; even if they do, it's not performant enough for my needs.

TUI is just a starting point. Differentiators would be a better GUI, and better real-time performance.

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