[d4rkp4ttern]

Big fan of handy and it’s cross platform as well. Parakeet V3 gives the best experience with very fast and accurate-enough transcriptions when talking to AIs that can read between the lines. It does have stuttering issues though. My primary use of these is when talking to coding agents.

But a few weeks ago someone on HN pointed me to Hex, which also supports Parakeet-V3 , and incredibly enough, is even faster than Handy because it’s a native MacOS-only app that leverages CoreML/Neural Engine for extremely quick transcriptions. Long ramblings transcribed in under a second!

It’s now my favorite fully local STT for MacOS:

https://github.com/kitlangton/Hex

[Barbing]

I installed a few different STT apps at the same time that used Parakeet and I think they disagreed with each other. But Hex otherwise would’ve won for me I think. Wanna reformat the Mac & try again (been a while anyway).

My comment on this from a month back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46637040

[arach]

Hex is great and not trying to pull you away from them - would love to get your pov when you give these a spin next time. email or DM me

[james2doyle]

I was having the same journey but landed on https://github.com/hoomanaskari/mac-dictate-anywhere