alt Hacker NewsNice! I really like how many variations on this idea are coming out. MacWhisper used to be great, but is kinda of a buggy mess now.
I'm making my own, for personal use. I did a survey of many and they all (that I could find) skip the fundamentals.
The major issues that I've run into:
- Crash recovery. Most of these apps are incredibly buggy and crash all the time, taking the recorded audio with them. Macwhisper is incredibly bad at this.
- Disk space. Many of these apps save wav files to disk. After a few hours of meetings, you may end up with gigabytes eaten.
- Microphone bleed. People don't always use headphones, the system mic will pick up the speaker sounds, causing duplicate (approximately) transcriptions.
I've yet to find a solution that handles all these correctly, let alone having high quality transcriptions.
Anyway, most of these apps are built around https://github.com/FluidInference/FluidAudio, if anyone is curious. Their readme has a big list of similar apps as well.
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I’m using MacParakeet these days. If your language is supported, definitely give it a try. It’s much faster and lower footprint
> I've yet to find a solution that handles all these correctly, let alone having high quality transcriptions.
Wait really? I honestly would have thought this was a solved problem by now, especially high quality transcriptions bit, just out of curiosity, is the problem that the quality isn't high enough?
Nice tip on FluidAudio that's the kind of thing I've been looking for. Thanks!