Amical launches open-source, privacy-focused AI dictation app

kept by eddie feb 20

Amical is a local-first, MIT-licensed dictation app that uses Whisper and open-source LLMs for privacy-preserving, context-aware speech-to-text on Mac and Windows.

How to become a 10x ramble-coder - Moe Khalil
The article explains how voice‑based rambling with LLMs captures richer context and emotions than typed prompts, offering practical tips for solo and multi‑person sessions to improve AI-assisted coding.
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Ask HN: What's the current best local/open speech-to-speech setup?
Developers find that truly local, low-latency speech-to-speech AI is not yet achievable with end-to-end open models, so the best 2026 setups combine streaming ASR, LLM, and TTS on a single GPU using frameworks like Pipecat.
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Everyone’s Using This A.I. Dictation App That I Want to Murder With a Hammer
The author tried Wispr Flow, an AI dictation app promoted as effortless writing, and found it disappointing, calling it a gimmick rather than a breakthrough.
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OpenAI Codex Review 2026 — Updated from Daily Use
After a year of daily use, OpenAI Codex has become a reliably indispensable tool for production development, handling 85-90% of well-scoped maintenance tasks.
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Life At The Edge - Asad Khaliq
Computing advances in fractals of concentration and diffusion; AI inference is now diffusing to edge devices, but cloud models remain essential for peak capability.
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