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djx22Aug 28

You may want to look into different models that are more accurate and maybe an AEC layer to remove background noise. Or at the very least a RNN de-noiser on the mic channel. Also, you may want to stream audio to the model instead of holding it all in memory and transcribe at the very end as that can potentially allow you to take the app much further than it is now.

I see Claude implemented a very crude upsampling/downsampling algorithm, which is what LLMs usually do when prompted to handle such a problem. But I would suggest restraining the model from implementing DSP processing on their own and instead use battle tested libraries. You can use rubato's FFT Resampler.

Audio processing is genuinely a hard engineering problem, LLMs usually don't get it right. If you decide to get deep into it, the knowledge you'll get is very rewarding.

ahaferburgAug 28

Are you aware of https://handy.computer/?

zackifyAug 28

https://voxtype.io/

https://tryvoiceink.com/

There's so many of these, at this point I've seen 10 clones make the front page each time as if there never existed local only options before.

Also whisper is pretty outdated vs parakeet

vivzkestrelAug 28

- tonnes of these get released daily but I ll give you the guys on HN an awesome idea

- havent seen a single one on HN yet in the last year (i read HN twice a day like brushing my teeth)

- When I input my voice into the mic, I want an AI voice as output converting my words in real time in AI voice

- Use case: gaming, I have a terrible voice and dont want to do a voice over with that but at the same time I would love to if I could

- Know any github projects capable of pulling this off? maybe direct integration as an OBS plugin would make it godtier

roni2k1bAug 29

Are you running the Moonshine model via ONNX/CoreML or native ggml/mlx bindings? how is the first token latency and memory footprint compared against Whisper small.en on Apple Silicon

e40Aug 28

Are you aware of Spokenly? It has a local mode that uses Apple’s built in services. I bind it to right command and use it frequently for hard to spell words.

itsdesmondAug 28

I see that it changes the menu bar icon to indicate status. How is this communicated when windows are full screen and the menu bar isn’t visible?

DzHiBaSAug 28

also handy.computer is awesome. local. choose your own model. multilingual. bind to any shortcut. works on arm silica

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