Not sure if finetune is the right word here, but their default local model seems to be an in-house fork of parakeet (?, maybe whisper) that works a bit better on tech jargon than vanilla parakeet i use in handy. Though has a few other quirks. Take with a grain of salt as I’m a low volume user, but it’s been enjoyable to test. I kept my wife on handy while i test this one.
I've used a few and got so invested that I built my own. If I had to suggest some:
Handy - It's great, supports Mac, Win and Linux. It's very focused on dictation, but it doesn't go too far outside of that. It's also completely free https://handy.computer/
VoiceInk - Mac only, open source, and pretty good if you're on a Mac. It starts at $25 for one device. https://tryvoiceink.com/
Glimpse - the one I built. Mac and Windows, free local dictation. Some other features are paid, w/ a 2 week free trial. https://tryglimpse.cc
What kind of punctuation commands do you need? For coding or regular English grammar?
I launched a speech to text app not so long ago and we are scouting the internet trying to find pains we can use to calibrate our app better in this field.
Ours does punctuation automatically, but I'm curious on what you need exactly.
I use Handy, it's fine, my complaint is that you can't have it clean up your grammar mistakes, it just records your words exactly as is. But for that it's great
Hey sputnick. My name is Al. How much cleaning are you looking for on your grammar? Almost like Grammarly (after the transcript of course)??
I launched a fully local transcription app where we offer 4 levels of transcription. The two highest levels do grammar cleaning, but I'm still reaching out to people to learn about their issues with other apps so we can build on top of that.
[HEX](https://github.com/anomalyco/hex) is a nice open source app, although it’s in the middle of a rewrite into rust and cross-platform support is still in progress.
After using Superwhisper a lot i wanted something more accurate/faster, ie using Parakeet. I found https://opensuperwhisper.com/. It's pretty ok, long startup time however, and something is overriding the default Opt+` shortcut, so I'm using Opt+Space.
Rambler for Pixel 11 Pro. Runs a local AI model Gemma 4. Eloquence on Apple store released by Google comes close too (most features run local models and you can cut off cloud access).
If you use an android phone, it's easy to find patches for GBoard keyboard for turning on this new feature that was kept exclusive to Pixel 11 series.
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VoiceInk - Mac only, open source, and pretty good if you're on a Mac. It starts at $25 for one device. https://tryvoiceink.com/
Glimpse - the one I built. Mac and Windows, free local dictation. Some other features are paid, w/ a 2 week free trial. https://tryglimpse.cc
https://www.monologue.to/
https://superwhisper.com/
What kind of punctuation commands do you need? For coding or regular English grammar?
I launched a speech to text app not so long ago and we are scouting the internet trying to find pains we can use to calibrate our app better in this field.
Ours does punctuation automatically, but I'm curious on what you need exactly.
Thank you Al
I launched a fully local transcription app where we offer 4 levels of transcription. The two highest levels do grammar cleaning, but I'm still reaching out to people to learn about their issues with other apps so we can build on top of that.
Where do you use these apps the most?
Thank you Al
I've put it in a simple android app https://github.com/resolveworks/scribe if you're interested
If you use an android phone, it's easy to find patches for GBoard keyboard for turning on this new feature that was kept exclusive to Pixel 11 series.