And yea, Nvidia's Parakeet v3 is good enough for my own just local transcription most of the time.
When I need local transcription to be more reliable and I don't have the energy to proof read a long ramble, I still often just pop open chatGPT, dictate, cut, paste.
But we're pretty much already to the point where local transcription models can replace cloud ones for personal use. They're still a bit rough around the edges in terms of polish and latency, but plenty of people are fine with that to avoid yet another app subscription and not having to worry about wondering what's potentially happening with their data.
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For just desktop, I use Handy (open source): https://handy.computer/
And yea, Nvidia's Parakeet v3 is good enough for my own just local transcription most of the time.
When I need local transcription to be more reliable and I don't have the energy to proof read a long ramble, I still often just pop open chatGPT, dictate, cut, paste.
But we're pretty much already to the point where local transcription models can replace cloud ones for personal use. They're still a bit rough around the edges in terms of polish and latency, but plenty of people are fine with that to avoid yet another app subscription and not having to worry about wondering what's potentially happening with their data.