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MattHart88on Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS

Thanks to everyone who submitted PRs! The fix is merged, new version is up.

MattHart88on Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS

I've found the "corrections" feature works well for most of the jargon and misspelling use cases. Can you give it a try and let me know edge cases?

MattHart88on Show HN: Ghost Pepper – 100% local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS

Thanks! We currently have 2 multi-lingual options available: - Whisper small (multilingual) (~466 MB, supports many languages) - Parakeet v3 (25 languages) (~1.4 GB, supports 25 languages via FluidAudio)

MattHart88on Show HN: Ghost Pepper – 100% local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS

I like this idea and it should work -- whatever microphone you have on should be able to hear the speaker. LMK if not (e.g., are you wearing headphones? if so, the mic can't hear the speaker)