Reading up on Parakeet
2 deep · digging since jan 30
- GitHub - iannuttall/natter: Fast, local-first dictation for macOS
Natter is a macOS menu bar app that performs local, offline dictation with cleanup for technical terms and voice-taught corrections.
- 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.