Show HN: Whispering – Open-source, local-first dictation you can trust

Re:Show HN: Whispering – Open-source, local-first dictation ... by satvikpendem on Monday August 18, 2025 @04:44PM (#44945125)

All these all just Whisper wrappers? I don't get it, the underlying model still isn't as good as paid custom models from companies, is there an actual open source / weights alternative to Whisper for speech to text? I know only of Parakeet.

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Re:Show HN: Whispering – Open-source, local-first dictation ... by sa-code on Monday August 18, 2025 @06:26PM (#44945941)

Voxtral mini is a bit bigger but their mixed language demos looked super impressive https://mistral.ai/news/voxtral

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Re:Show HN: Whispering – Open-source, local-first dictation ... by braden-w on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @01:25AM (#44948508)

We like Whisper because it's open-source :) but we also support OpenAI 4o-transcribe/ElevenLabs/Deepgram APIs that all use non-Whisper models (presumedly) under the hood. Speaches also supports other models that are not Whisper. Hopefully adding Parakeet support later too!

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