Comment on Ask HN: What's the current best local/open speech-to-speech setup?parentComments−d4rkp4ttern6moHex is my new favorite STT on MacOS. Also uses Parakeet V3. I didn't think it could possibly be faster than Handy, but it is much faster - even long ramblings transcribed within a second. It's MacOS only, leverages the CoreML / Apple Neural Engine.https://github.com/kitlangton/HexAlso the transcriptions with hex don't seem to suffer from some of the issues with Handy, such as stutter.
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Hex is my new favorite STT on MacOS. Also uses Parakeet V3. I didn't think it could possibly be faster than Handy, but it is much faster - even long ramblings transcribed within a second. It's MacOS only, leverages the CoreML / Apple Neural Engine.
https://github.com/kitlangton/Hex
Also the transcriptions with hex don't seem to suffer from some of the issues with Handy, such as stutter.