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Multicompyesterday at 7:19 PM1 replyview on HN

I'm so amazed to find out just how close we are to the start trek voice computer.

I used to use Dragon Dictation to draft my first novel, had to learn a 'language' to tell the rudimentary engine how to recognize my speech.

And then I discovered [1] and have been using it for some basic speech recognition, amazed at what a local model can do.

But it can't transcribe any text until I finish recording a file, and then it starts work, so very slow batches in terms of feedback latency cycles.

And now you've posted this cool solution which streams audio chunks to a model in infinite small pieces, amazing, just amazing.

Now if only I can figure out how to contribute to Handy or similar to do that Speech To Text in a streaming mode, STT locally will be a solved problem for me.

[1] https://github.com/cjpais/Handy


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m1elyesterday at 9:32 PM

you should check out

https://github.com/pipecat-ai/nemotron-january-2026/

discovered through this twitter post:

https://x.com/kwindla/status/2008601717987045382

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