Superwhisper — Been using it a long time. It's paid with a lifetime subscription available. Tons of features. Language models are built right in without additional charge. Solo dev is epic; may defer upgrades to avoid occasional bugs/regressions (hey, it's complex software).
Trying each for a few minutes:
Hex — Feels the leanest (& cleanest) free options mentioned for Mac in this thread.
Fluid Voice — Offers a unique feature, a real-time view of your speech as you talk! Superwhisper has this, but only with an online model. (You can't see your entire transcript in Fluid, though. The recording window view is limited to about one sentence at a time--of course you do see everything when you complete your dictation.)
Handy — Pink and cute. I like the history window. As far as clipboard handling goes, I might note that the "don't modify clipboard" setting is more of a "restore clipboard" setting. Though it doesn't need as many permissions as Hex because it's willing to move clipboard items around a bit, if I'm not mistaken.
Note Hex seems to be upset about me installing all the others... lots of restarting in between installs all around. Each has something to offer.
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Big shout out to Nvidia open-sourcing Parakeet--all of these apps are lightning fast.
Also I'm partial to being able to stream transcriptions to the cursor into any field, or at least view live like Fluid (or superwhisper online). I know it's complex b/c models transcribe the whole file for accuracy. (I'm OK with seeing a lower quality transcript realtime and waiting a second for the higher-quality version to paste at the end.)
Superwhisper — Been using it a long time. It's paid with a lifetime subscription available. Tons of features. Language models are built right in without additional charge. Solo dev is epic; may defer upgrades to avoid occasional bugs/regressions (hey, it's complex software).
Trying each for a few minutes:
Hex — Feels the leanest (& cleanest) free options mentioned for Mac in this thread.
Fluid Voice — Offers a unique feature, a real-time view of your speech as you talk! Superwhisper has this, but only with an online model. (You can't see your entire transcript in Fluid, though. The recording window view is limited to about one sentence at a time--of course you do see everything when you complete your dictation.)
Handy — Pink and cute. I like the history window. As far as clipboard handling goes, I might note that the "don't modify clipboard" setting is more of a "restore clipboard" setting. Though it doesn't need as many permissions as Hex because it's willing to move clipboard items around a bit, if I'm not mistaken.
Note Hex seems to be upset about me installing all the others... lots of restarting in between installs all around. Each has something to offer.
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Big shout out to Nvidia open-sourcing Parakeet--all of these apps are lightning fast.
Also I'm partial to being able to stream transcriptions to the cursor into any field, or at least view live like Fluid (or superwhisper online). I know it's complex b/c models transcribe the whole file for accuracy. (I'm OK with seeing a lower quality transcript realtime and waiting a second for the higher-quality version to paste at the end.)