Reading up on Whisper
3 deep · digging since jan 30
- Amical launches open-source, privacy-focused AI dictation app
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.
- joke-generator
Training a joke generator on Kimi K2 using rubric-based RL that decomposes humor into verifiable properties like specificity and commitment.
- 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.