GitHub - matthartman/ghost-pepper: Hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS. 100% local, powered by WhisperKit and local LLM cleanup. Hold Control to record, release to transcribe and paste.

kept by eddie mar 24

Ghost Pepper is a free, open-source macOS app that provides 100% local, hold-to-talk speech-to-text and meeting transcription using on-device AI models.

Aqua Voice - Fast and Accurate Voice Dictation for Mac and Windows
Aqua Voice offers fast, accurate, private speech-to-text for Mac and Windows, using the Avalon model to achieve dictation speeds of 230 WPM.
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superwhisper/s1-mini
Superwhisper releases s1-mini, a 0.6B-parameter Qwen3-fine-tuned text normalizer that converts raw ASR transcripts into clean written English with 94.8% token accuracy.
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9 theses on AI | Sarthak Munshi
AI progress is constrained by long-task reliability, labor reallocation, cost inefficiencies of general APIs, the declining value of raw coding skills, inadequate benchmark testing, the limits of formal verification without strong specs, memory-bound local hardware advantages, the shift from data to environment-driven training, and the rising competitiveness of US open-weight models.
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