Hold fn, speak, and let go. LocalBolo is private dictation for Mac: speech to text that runs entirely on your device and types into any app.

1 points•abhishekucs•about 3 hours ago•1 comment•

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abhishekucsabout 3 hours ago
I was not happy paying $12 per month to Dictation application and I was enjoying playing with open source model. So I tried making my own dictation which has same speed and accuracy but run totally on device. I am using parakeet for STT and qwen 2.5 for Cleanup. It runs perfectly fine on my M1 Macbook Pro which has 8GB of RAM.

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