Yap – free offline voice dictation for Mac/Windows/Linux (Wispr Flow alt)

by AkuchiS • 25 days ago

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taffydavid• 25 days ago

I love on-device transcription apps, but this looks like yet another AI generated whisper wrapper. I'm put off by the readme which is clearly LLM generated, with emdash all over the place and bits that smell of user questions turned into talking points.

Why not the Fn / key? It's the obvious one-finger choice, but on macOS the Fn key emits no real keypress — only a hidden hardware flag — so

And

macOS permissions (read this if the hotkey "does nothing")

Sorry but I can't see a reason to use this over something tried and tested like Handy, which is free, open source, on-device, does post capture correction and isn't limited to whisper (you can use parakeet v3 which I find way better than whisper)

d4rkp4ttern3• 25 days ago

My current fav STT is Hex, MacOS only:

https://github.com/kitlangton/Hex

Near-instant accurate-enough transcription using local Parakeet V3.

Handy is multi-platform, also great:

https://github.com/cjpais/Handy

Every time a new STT model or app is announced, I see if it displaces Hex for me but so far none have.

I’ll check out Yap though.

theturtletalks4• 24 days ago

Have you tried FluidVoice? Comes close to those 2 imo.

I’m tracking them all here:

https://opensource.builders/alternatives/superwhisper

d4rkp4ttern3• 24 days ago

Nice collection! Do you know if any of those can do meeting transcription with turn detection with consistent speaker ID ? Otter killers in other words.

amanzi• 24 days ago

Nice website, but would be great if you could include filters for which operating systems these apps support.

youniverse2• 24 days ago

If this is your website, I would recommend an actually noticeable button to go to the repo, it took me a good minute to find the little icon lol.

youniverse2• 24 days ago

I use handy and it does the job very well, is there a difference with hex or any other transcription app if we are using the same underlying model? Or just UI/UX stuff?

d4rkp4ttern3• 24 days ago

When I tried handy a few months ago the transcription had stuttering issues, and I later discovered Hex and it was even faster and did not have those issues, so I stuck with it. This was with the same underlying Parakeet model, I think the differences are in the surrounding engine and post processing etc.

luckman212• 24 days ago

I was also a fan of Hex, but development has stalled. I tried FluidVoice (found it buggy) and Handy (had problems with hotkey) before eventually landing on TypeWhisper[0].

It works very well, and has a few more bells and whistles without feeling bloated.

[0] https://www.typewhisper.com

Yap – free offline voice dictation for Mac/Windows/Linux (Wispr Flow alt)

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