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remuskaostoday at 4:49 AM2 repliesview on HN

Parakeet doesn't require a GPU. I'm handily running it on my Ubuntu Linux laptop.


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namibjtoday at 8:16 AM

I'm looking to switch from feeding the default android "recorder" app's .WAV into Gemini 3 Pro (via the app) with (usually just) a `Transcribe this please:` prompt; content is usually German voice instructions/explanation for how to do/approach some sysadmin stuff; there does tend to be some amount of interjecting (primarily for clarifications(-posing/-requesting)) by me to resolve ambiguity as early as possible/practical.

If e.g. parakeet can be run on my phone in real time showing the transcript live:

- with latency low enough to be "comfortable enough" for the instructor to keep an eye on and approve the transcribed instructions

[not necessarily every word of the transcript, i.e., a commanded "edit" doesn't need to be applied in the outcome as long as it's nature is otherwise clear enough to not add meaningful amounts of ambiguity to the final "written" instructions]

by glancing at the screen while dictating the explanation (and blurting out any transcription complaints as soon as that's possible without breaking one's own string-of-thought or spoken grammar too much)

, I'd very happily switch to that approach instead of what I was doing.

Bonus if there's a no-bulky-or-expensive-hardware way to accommodate us both speaking over each other so I won't have to _interrupt_ his speaking just to put a clarifying comment (on what he just said) in the transcript for him to see and sign off, where the at least "only" briefly interrupts his thoughts right while he actually reads my transcribed words (he doesn't have to hear them, and it's better if he won't; I can probably get him to put on earmuffs to not hear me louder than he hears his thoughts, and a sufficiently-smoothed SNR meter for specifically his voice should take care him regulating his volume while the earmuffs mute it and I occasionally talk over him)...

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agentifyshtoday at 4:52 AM

you are right i just downloaded it on handy and its working i can't believe it

i was using assmeblyAI but this is fast and accurate and offline wtf!