[draebek]

For people on macOS, the free app Aiko on the App Store makes it easy to use Whisper, if you want a GUI: https://sindresorhus.com/aiko

[bluerooibos]

My faith in humanity has notched up a little today after seeing how easy Aiko and Oolama make it to use this incredible tech.

As a daily user of all the latest OpenAI/Claude models for the last few years, I'm amazed at how good llama3.1 is - all running locally, privately, with zero connection to the web. How did I not know about this?!