I turned a 40 year old Apple Mouse into a speech to text button

Re:I turned a 40 year old Apple Mouse into a speech to text ... by Tsarp on Monday May 05, 2025 @12:03AM (#43891849)

For folks looking to running speech to text locally(in the context of dictation) and dont want to do a subscription there are a few apps that run whisper large turbo locally (optimized to run really fast on apple silicon).

1. https://goodsnooze.gumroad.com/l/macwhisper (dictation + transcription)

2. https://carelesswhisper.app (does dictation only, and does it really well; cheapest)

3. https://superwhisper.com (both local and hosted models + lots of bells and whistles, but much higher pricing)

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Re:I turned a 40 year old Apple Mouse into a speech to text ... by sipjca on Monday May 05, 2025 @12:12AM (#43891883)

I’m the author of the post and will also be releasing an open source speech to text app in the coming weeks. It’s what I’ve been using for months, but packaging it for people

It’s going to be extremely simple, and hopefully easy enough to use. MIT licensed, free

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Re:I turned a 40 year old Apple Mouse into a speech to text ... by Void_ on Monday May 05, 2025 @05:13AM (#43893169)

Here’s super fast and cheap alternative to Superwhisper:

https://whispertype.com

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Re:I turned a 40 year old Apple Mouse into a speech to text ... by DougBTX on Monday May 05, 2025 @09:13AM (#43894766)

Do any of these support streaming dictation, to show text progressively while dictating?

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Re:I turned a 40 year old Apple Mouse into a speech to text ... by 7839284023 on Monday May 05, 2025 @09:24AM (#43894875)

You forgot about https://tryvoiceink.com/

19 Dollar and Open-Source.

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Re:I turned a 40 year old Apple Mouse into a speech to text ... by czarofvan on Monday May 05, 2025 @09:43AM (#43895039)

I've looked at the codebase. The ones I listed do a significant amount of audio processing to get better transcripts, avoid the "Thank you" issues with whisper large turbo, handle bluetooth and noisy environments.

Hopefully VoiceInk gets there. It is a neat project and really well done for a first time dev but rough around the edges. Careless is ~20$ and if you just need dictation is the best option.

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