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how does the quality compare with the windows built in one (Win+H), the one with online models?

I'm using that to dictate prompts, it struggles with technical terms: JSON becomes Jason, but otherwise is fine

In my opinion, attempting to perform live dictation is a solution that is looking for a problem. For example, the way I'm writing this comment is: I hold down a keyboard shortcut on my keyboard, and then I just say stuff. And I can say a really long thing. I don't need to see what it's typing out. I don't need to stream the speech-to-text transcription. When the full thing is ingested, I can then release my keys, and within a second it's going to just paste the entire thing into this comment box. And also, technical terms are going to be just fine with Whisper. For example, Here's a JSON file.

(this was transcribed using whisper.cpp with no edits. took less than a second on a 5090)

I’ve been using Parakeet with MacWhisper for a lot of my AI coding interactions. It’s not perfect but generally saves me a lot of time.

I barely use a keyboard for most things anymore.

Yea whisper has more features and is awesome if you have the hardware to run the big models that are accurate enough. The constraint here is the best cpu only implementation. By no means am I wedded or affiliated with parakeet, it's just the best/fastest within the CPU hardware space.

My project has a built-in word_replacement so you can automatically replace certain terms if that's important to you in the config.toml

i loved whisper but it was insanely slow on cpu only and even then it was with a smaller whisper that isn't as accurate as parakeet.

my windows environment locks down the built-in windows option so i don't have a way to test it. i've heard it's pretty good if you're allowed to use it, but your inputs don't stay local which is why i needed to create this project.

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